USS Breaker

USS Breaker

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

*, a small schooner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

*, wooden-hulled launch used as a ferry by the Navy.

*, a steam trawler constructed in 1912 at Quincy, Massachusetts.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b9-list.htm


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