Memorial Plaque for American naval ships named Hornet from 1775 to 1970
Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect:
USS Hornet (1775), a 10-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, served in the American Revolutionary War.
USS Hornet (1805 sloop), also a 10-gun sloop, took part in the First Barbary War.
USS Hornet (1805 brig), a brig-rigged sloop-of-war, was launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829.
USS Hornet (1813) was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820.
USS Hornet (1865), the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer.
USS Hornet (1898), a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish–American War.
USS Hornet (CV-8) launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
USS Hornet (CV-12) was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II, as well as portions of the Vietnam War. She later served as the recovery vessel for Apollo 11 and 12 in 1969, before decommissioning the following year. She is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.[1]
^"USS Hornet (CV-12/CVA-12/CVS-12)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
USSHornet, after the stinging insect: USSHornet (1775), a 10-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, served in the American Revolutionary War. USSHornet (1805...
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carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann, while the carriers USS Enterprise and USSHornet survived the battle fully intact. After Midway and the exhausting...
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twin-engine B-25 bombers from USSHornet (CV-8) to bomb Tokyo in April 1942, served as Admiral Raymond Spruance's chief of staff aboard USS Enterprise during the...
Museum in Oregon, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, and the USSHornet Museum in Alameda, California. The helicopter at the USSHornet Museum is a retired...
personally welcomed them back to Earth in July 1969 aboard the recovery ship USSHornet after splashdown. The trailers housed the three crew as well as a physician...
battle of the Eastern Solomans, and helped to sink the aircraft carrier USSHornet at the battle of Santa Cruz. She was damaged by carrier attacks during...
USS Arlington in Marine One. After a night on board, they would fly to Hornet in Marine One for a few hours of ceremonies. On arrival aboard Hornet,...
Duck", the seventh of 16 B-25s to take off from the aircraft carrier USSHornet. The film depicted the raid accurately and used actual wartime footage...
USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed USSHornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777 USSHornet (1805 sloop) USSHornet (1805 brig)...
embarkation aboard the aircraft carrier USSHornet. On April 18, Doolittle and his 16 B-25 crews took off from Hornet, reached Japan, and bombed their targets...
the suits were scrubbed prior to the astronauts being hoisted aboard USSHornet and escorted safely inside a Mobile Quarantine Facility. Both the SpaceX...
are: USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina USS Intrepid (CV-11) in New York City USSHornet (CV-12) in Alameda, California USS Lexington (CV-16)...
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