Three ships of the United States Navy (and one of the Confederate States Navy) have been named for the 15th state:

• The Mississippi Flotilla captured Confederate transport CSS Kentucky at Memphis 6 June 1862. The US Navy Register for 1863 listed her as assigned to the Mississippi Squadron but no other record of her service in the Union Navy has been found.
• USS Kentucky (BB-6) was a Kearsarge-class battleship launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet and sold for scrapping 23 January 1924
• USS Kentucky (BB-66) was an Iowa-class battleship under construction in 1947 when her contract was canceled
• USS Kentucky (SSBN-737) is an Ohio-class submarine commissioned in 1991 and currently in active service

See also

• USS Kentuckian
• Kentucky, a riverboat which sank near Shreveport, Louisiana in 1865 with the loss of 200 lives. See List of shipwrecks of the United States.

List of ships with the same or similar names

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.