USS ''Franklin'' may refer to: * , a 6-gun schooner, fitted out in 1775 and returned to the owner in 1776 * , an 8-gun brig built in 1795, captured by corsairs from Tripoli in 1802, bought back by the United States Navy in 1805, and sold in 1807 * , a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1815 and broken up in 1852 * , a

screw frigate Steam frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were not meant to stand in the line of battle. There were some exceptions like for exa ...

launched in 1864 and in active service until 1877, thereafter used as a receiving ship until 1915 * , an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944 and crippled by bombs in March 1945, later repaired but remaining in reserve until stricken in 1964

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