USS Riverside

USS Riverside

USS Riverside is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:

** USS Riverside (1890), a wooden, schooner-rigged barge, was built during 1890 at Brooklyn, New York.

** USS Riverside (APA-102), laid down on 11 November 1942 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, Mississippi.

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