USS Arctic

USS Arctic

USS "Arctic" is the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy:

*, was a screw steamer built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1855.

*, was a sidewheel steamer built in 1873.

*, was built in 1913 at Eagle Harbor, WA, by Hall Bros.

*, was a steel-hulled, single-screw freighter built in 1919 at Oakland, California.

*, is a fast combat support ship, commissioned as the USS|Arctic into the United States Navy in 1995 and decommissioned in 2002. She is now operated by the Military Sealift Command.

ee also

* SS Arctic
* MV Arctic
* MS Arctic Explorer
* MY Arctic Sunrise

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a11-list.htm
*NVR


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