USS ''Vandalia'' has been the name of four ships in the service 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 ...
. All of the ships are named after
Vandalia, Illinois.
* , an 18-gun
sloop-of-war
* , a
screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's ''screws'' (propelle ...
* , originally known as ''Walter Jennings'', a twin-screw, steel-hulled tanker, acquired by the Navy in 1944 and sank in a typhoon in 1945.
* , a
submarine chaser which served from 1943 until 1946.
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United States Navy ship names