USS Lafayette

USS Lafayette

Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS "Lafayette" for Marquis de Lafayette.

*USS|Lafayette|1848, was built in 1848 as "Aleck Scott", and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamed "Lafayette" 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold

*USS|Lafayette|AP-53, was launched as the French built "Normandie" and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant then struck in 1945

*USS|Lafayette|SSBN-616, was the lead ship of the sclass|Lafayette|submarine, commissioned in 1963, and decommissioned in 1991


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