USS Madawaska

USS Madawaska

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS "Madawaska", after Madawaska, Maine, a town in northern Aroostook County, on the Canadian border:

* was a screw steamer, later renamed USS "Tennessee" in 1869.

*, the former SS "König Wilhelm II" of the Hamburg America Line; served as a U.S. Navy transport in World War I; transferred to the United States Army as USAT "Madawaska" and, later, USAT "U.S. Grant"; transferred back to U.S. Navy in 1940 and served as USS "U. S. Grant" (AP-29) throughout World War II.

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