Two ships of the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

have been named ''Bennington'', after the town of

Bennington, Vermont Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. As of the 2020 US Census, the population was 15,333. Bennington is the most populous t ...

. The

Battle of Bennington The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, part of the Saratoga campaign, that took place on August 16, 1777, on a farm owned by John Green in Walloomsac, New York, about from its namesake, Bennington, Vermont. A r ...

occurred on 16 August 1777. * , was commissioned in 1891 and took possession of Wake Island during the Spanish–American War. * , was an aircraft carrier of World War II and decommissioned in 1970.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennington United States Navy ship names Bennington, Vermont