Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ''Kane'' for
Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Af ...
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* was a commissioned in 1920, reclassified as the high speed transport in 1943, and decommissioned in 1946.
* was put into service in 1965, struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 2001 and transferred to Turkey.
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United States Navy ship names