USS Satellite

USS Satellite

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

* USS Satellite (1854), an American Civil War tugboat commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 12 September 1861.

* USS Satellite (SP-1012), a yacht built during 1887 by John F. Mumm at Brooklyn, New York, was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve for Navy service.

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