USS Nightingale

USS Nightingale

USS "Nightingale" is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy:
* USS Nightingale (1851), a captured suspected slaver from Boston, Massachusetts
* USS Nightingale (SP-523), a motorboat built by C. W. Ferguson, Groton, Connecticut in 1917]
* USS Nightingale (AMc-18), a coastal minesweeper commissioned 31 January 1941
* USS Nightingale (AMc-149), acquired by the Navy 13 December 1941
* USS Nightingale (YMS-290), a minesweeper commissioned 17 July 1943

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