Five ships of the
United States Navy have been named ''Ariel'', after the sprite
Ariel in
William Shakespeare's play ''
The Tempest''.
* , a 16-gun
sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
, originally the
Royal Navy's HMS ''Ariel'' captured by the French in 1779, lent to the Americans in 1780, and returned to the French the next year.
* , a
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
launched on
Lake Erie in 1813 and active in operations that year.
* , was a schooner built in
Baltimore
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as ''Fourth of July''. The US Navy commissioned her as USS ''Fourth of July'' in May 1831. She was renamed ''Ariel'' on 9 June. She was decommissioned on 31 December 1832 and sold on 3 January 1833.
* , schooner captured in the American Civil War and used by the Navy until 1865.
* , a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner leased from the
United Fruit Company and used from 1942 to 1946.
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United States Navy ship names