USS Abraham Lincoln
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Two United States Navy ships have borne the name Abraham Lincoln, in honor of the 16th President.
- The first Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) was a ballistic missile submarine commissioned 1961.
- The second Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1989.
Several USS Abraham Lincolns have also appeared in fiction:
- A frigate by that name is sunk by Captain Nemo's Nautilus in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- In Puccini's Madam Butterfly B.F. Pinkerton's ship is also the Lincoln