Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bunker Hill, in remembrance of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War:
- USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that fought heavily in the Pacific during World War II and was destroyed by Kamikaze attacks[1]
- USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1986 and decommissioned in 2023[2]
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Merchant vessels
- SS Bunker Hill, was acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 and commissioned as USS Aroostook (CM-3).
- SS Bunker Hill, a civilian-operated T2 tanker steamer, sank on 6 March 1964 after an explosion. She broke in two near Anacortes, Washington.
References
- ^ Bunker Hill I, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- ^ Bunker Hill II, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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.
This page was last edited on 25 December 2023, at 12:21