USS Shawmut

USS Shawmut, named for the shawmut, is the name of more than one ship of the United States Navy:

• USS Shawmut (1863) was an American Civil War gunboat in use 1863–1877.
• Massachusetts was renamed Shawmut (CM-4) in 1917 and was renamed USS Oglala on 1 January 1928; the minelayer was decommissioned in 1946.
• USS Shawmut (CM-11) was the final name of USS Salem (CM-11), a minelayer and net-laying ship during World War II.

References

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

List of ships with the same or similar names

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