USS Delaware
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USS Delaware may refer to one of the six United States Navy ships named for the U.S. state of Delaware (the first state in the Union):
- USS Delaware (1776), a 24-gun frigate built in 1776 and captured by the British in 1777
- USS Delaware (1798), a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798
- USS Delaware (1820), a 74-gun ship of the line, launched in 1820 and burned in 1861
- USS Delaware (1861), a side-wheel steamer built in 1861 and decommissioned in 1865
- USS Delaware (1869), a screw steamer renamed from Piscataque in 1869
- USS Delaware (BB-28), a battleship commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1924