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This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with S. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
Retired destroyer escorts at San Diego, in the 1960s USS Galveston, last ship to depart the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego. Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego was a part of the United States Navy reserve fleets, also called a mothball fleet, used to store surplus ships after World War II. Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego was near Naval Base San ...
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
In February 1946, the squadron was inactivated and the ships were sent to Charleston, South Carolina for lay-up. On 4 April 1956, the squadron was reactivated as Destroyer Division 231 under the command of Captain E. K. Wakefield, with USS Picking (DD-685) , USS Stephen Potter (DD-538) , USS Preston (DD-795) , and USS Irwin (DD-794) .
USS SC-636 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. It was laid down on 29 August 1941 by the Vineyard Shipbuilding Co. in Milford, Delaware and launched on 14 May 1942. It was commissioned on 11 July 1942. It foundered during Typhoon Louise on 9 October 1945 off the coast of Okinawa.
US Navy NH 96504 a 63 ft (19 m) air-sea rescue boat built by Fellows & Stewart US Navy submarine chaser SC-1011 built by Fellows & Stewart, off Terminal Island in July 1943. Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island's Pier 206.
USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
USS South Carolina (1799) was a coastal patrol vessel built in 1799 and sold in 1802; USS South Carolina (1860) was a screw steamer built in 1860; served in the American Civil War and sold in 1866; USS South Carolina (BB-26) was a South Carolina-class battleship launched in 1908 and sold for scrap in 1924