USS Hornet
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Eight ships of the United States Navy
have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect
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, was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War, was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War, was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829 was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942 was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect
Hornet
Hornets are the largest eusocial wasps; some species can reach up to in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex , which is proportionally larger in Vespa and by the anteriorly rounded gasters .- Life cycle :In...
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, was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War, was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War, was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829 was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942 was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California