USS Massachusetts

Eight ships of the United States Navy and Revenue-Marine have been named USS Massachusetts, after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

1. , a topsail schooner and the first Revenue-Marine cutter of the United States, sold in 1792
2. , a sloop built to replace the 1791 Massachusetts
3. , a wooden steamer that saw action during the Mexican–American War and in Puget Sound
4. , an iron screw steamer that saw action during the American Civil War
5. , an commissioned in 1896 as the second battleship procured by the U.S. Navy; saw action in the Spanish–American War, scuttled in 1921
6. , originally a privately-owned fast cargo vessel, purchased and commissioned by the U.S. Navy in late 1917 and converted to a minelayer; renamed Shawmut in early 1918, renamed Oglala in 1928
7. , a battleship of the second South Dakota class, commissioned in 1942; saw action in World War II, now a museum ship
8. , a launched in 2024 and commissioned in late March 2026

See also

• , the never-launched monitor Passaconaway renamed first to Thunderer then to Massachusetts before being scrapped in 1884
• SS Massachusetts (1891), a steel-hulled freighter later renamed as the USAT Sheridan
• , a planned battleship of the first South Dakota class, canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923

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