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:
- USS Madawaska (1865) was a screw steamer, later renamed USS Tennessee in 1869.
- USS Madawaska (ID-3011), 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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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:
- USS Madawaska (1865) was a screw steamer, later renamed USS Tennessee in 1869.
- USS Madawaska (ID-3011), 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.
Sources
This article incorporates text from the
public domain
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found
here.
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.