USS Banshee

USS Banshee

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

*, a gunboat commissioned 14 June 1864.

*, a tanker which served in both World War I and World War II.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b2-list.htm


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