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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 ...
: *, was a 24-gun
frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
built in 1776 and captured by the British in 1777 *, was a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798 *, was a 74-gun
ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
, launched in 1820 and burned in 1861 *, was a side-wheel steamer built in 1861 and decommissioned in 1865 *, was a screw steamer renamed from ''Piscataqua'' in 1869 *, was a
battleship A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...
commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1924 *''SP-467'' (later ''AT-5S'' and ''YT-111'') served in the Navy from 1917 to 1923. Although officially known as ''SP-467'', she was erroneously listed under her merchant name of ''Delaware'' on various occasions. *, a commissioned in 2020


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* , an auxiliary launched in 1961 and in ready reserve since 1989. * ''
The Captain from Connecticut ''The Captain from Connecticut'' is a novel, published in 1941, by C. S. Forester, the author of the novels about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. ''The Captain from Connecticut'' is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic War ...
'', a novel by
C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Roya ...
largely set aboard a fictional USS ''Delaware'' during the
War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...
. {{DEFAULTSORT:Delaware United States Navy ship names