Five ships in 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 USS ''Iris'' for
Iris
Iris most often refers to:
*Iris (anatomy), part of the eye
*Iris (mythology), a Greek goddess
* ''Iris'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants
*Iris (color), an ambiguous color term
Iris or IRIS may also refer to:
Arts and media
Fictional enti ...
, who in Greek mythology is the goddess of the rainbow
* , was commissioned in 1847, served during the Mexican–American War and was decommissioned in 1848
* , was built in 1863, served in the American Civil War, and decommissioned in 1865
* , was a
monitor
Monitor or monitor may refer to:
Places
* Monitor, Alberta
* Monitor, Indiana, town in the United States
* Monitor, Kentucky
* Monitor, Oregon, unincorporated community in the United States
* Monitor, Washington
* Monitor, Logan County, West Vir ...
built as USS ''Shiloh'' in 1865, renamed ''Iris'' in 1869 and decommissioned in 1874
* , was commissioned in 1898 and decommissioned in 1916
* , was a
lighthouse tender
A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail, and transportation.
In the United States, these ships originally served as part of the Lighthous ...
, built in 1897, transferred to the US Navy in 1917 and returned to the Department of Commerce in 1919
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United States Navy ship names