USS Sumter
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USS Sumter may refer to:
- CSS SumterCSS SumterCSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell's New Orleans & Havana Line. Purchased by the Confederate Government at New Orleans in April 1861, she was converted to a cruiser and placed under the command of...
a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War, the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in 1862 (previously AP-97), an attack transport; formerly Iberville, a tank landing ship