Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ''Lafayette'' for
Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutio ...
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*, was built in 1848 as ''Aleck Scott'', and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamed ''Lafayette'' on 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold
*, was launched as the French-built ''Normandie'' and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant and then struck in 1945
*, was the lead ship of the s, commissioned in 1963, and decommissioned in 1991
*, a planned
Constellation-class frigate
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United States Navy ship names