USS Orion

USS Orion

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

* USS Orion (1861), a wooden schooner used as part of the stone fleet during the American Civil War.
* USS Orion (AC-11), a collier commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, 29 July 1912.
* USS Orion (AS-18), a submarine tender commissioned 30 September 1943.

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