USS Assurance

USS Assurance

USS "Assurance" is a name used more than once by the US Navy:

*, a fleet minesweeper commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, on 21 November 1958.

*, an ocean surveillance ship delivered to the Military Sealift Command on 1 May 1985.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a13-list.htm


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