USS Virginia

Ten United States Navy ships, and two of the Confederate Navy, have borne the name USS Virginia, after the tenth state.

• The first USS Virginia was a 28-gun sailing frigate built in 1776, captured by the British in the following year and taken into their service as HMS Virginia.
• The second Virginia was a 14-gun revenue cutter built in 1797 and returned to the Revenue Cutter Service in 1801.
• The third Virginia was a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1818 but never launched, and broken up on the stocks in 1874.
• A captured Spanish blockade runner Virginia was a Navy ship between 1863 and 1865. or The fourth USS Virginia, originally known as Pet and as Noe-Daquy, was captured during the American Civil War and commissioned in the Union Navy.
• The fifth Virginia (BB-13) was a battleship commissioned in 1906, decommissioned in 1920, and destroyed in 1923 as a bombing target.
• The sixth USS Virginia (SP-274), a yacht purchased by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-274, patrolled Lake Michigan out of Detroit, Michigan during World War I.
• The seventh USS Virginia (SP-746), a motorboat acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-746, patroled the coast out of Machias, Maine during World War I.
• The eighth USS Virginia (SP-1965), a two-masted auxiliary schooner acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-1965, patroled the coast out of Norfolk, Virginia during World War I.
• The ninth Virginia (CGN-38) was a nuclear guided missile cruiser, commissioned in 1976 and decommissioned in 1994.
• The tenth USS Virginia (SSN-774), is the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines.

The CSS Virginia was the Confederate name for the USS Merrimac rebuilt as an ironclad.

See also CSS Virginia II (an ironclad ram).