US Navy Ships Named for Places in the State of Maine
(including US Coast Guard and US Revenue Cutter Service Vessels that served in the US Navy
and now active US Coast Guard Vessels)

(The list is not complete and will be updated periodically.
Last update 03/25/2005)

The State of Maine has a long and distinguished maritime heritage including the establishment of the first American shipyard near Portland in 1638, and Maine's First Ship, built in 1607. The Navy has named a number of ships for geographic features and political entities of the State of Maine. The most used names are the state name - Maine assigned to 5 hulls (4 commissioned or in service) and Piscataqua, the river forming part of the Maine-New Hampshire boundary, also assigned to 5 hulls (4 commissioned or in service). The first Navy ship named for a place in Maine was the sloop of war Falmouth commissioned 18 January 1828,and the latest is the Ballistic Nuclear Submarine Maine (SSBN-741). The largest ship was the oiler Sebec at 25,400 tons, 553' ft. long and 75' wide, and the smallest (boat), the motorboat Somerset at 15 tons. Not all the names are uniquely assigned to Maine places, for example, Somerset and Fairfield represent a number of municipalities and counties in other states.

= Indicates vessel is in commission or service as of October 2004.
= Indicates that the name was assigned, but that the vessel was never in commission or in service with that name.
= Indicates the vessel was built in Maine (includes those built at Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Ship Yard which is actually in Kittery, ME.)

Pre-1880

Monitor USS Agamenticus USS Casco (Photo) USS Piscataqua Steamer USS Carrabasset USS Eastport (Photo) USS Piscataqua USS Somerset

Screw Frigate USS Madawaska Sloop of War USS Fairfield USS Falmouth USS Ossipee (Photos)

Gunboat USS AroostookPhoto USS Katahdin USS Kennebec USS Kineo USS Saco USS Sebago USS Shawmut

US Coast Guard and US Revenue Cutter Service Vessels
That Served With The US Navy

USCGC Ossipee (WPG-50)
USRC Androscoggin

Active US Coast Guard Vessels Named for Places in the State of Maine

USCGC Penobscot Bay (WTGB-107), Bay class icebreaking tug, com. 1984.
USCGC Monehegan (WPB-1305), Island class patrol boat, com. 1986.
USCGC Kennebec (WLM-554), Pamlico class construction tender (inland), com. 1977.

National Oceanographic Fleet

Argo Maine (Now apparently owned by Downeast Marine Research, Inc.)

• Links:
  • Ship Histories:
    • The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    • U.S. Navy in the Civil War: Western Theater - The Brownwater Navy (source from DANFS) by Gary Mathews
    • University of North Carolina - SunSite
    • Ship Naming in the US Navy
  • Lists:
    • USN Active Ships
    • Decommissioned Ships
    • Naval Vessel Register Inactive Ships
    • NVR Service Craft List
    • World Fleets: US Coast Guard Vessels
  • Ship Photos:
    • Naval Historical Center
      
    • National Archives`
  • Maine Naval and Maritime Links:
    • Bath Iron Works (official)
    • Unofficial Bath Iron Works Site by Wayne Cook
    • Maine Maritime Academy (T/V State of Maine (ex-USNS Tanner (TAGS-40))
    • Maine Maritime Museum
    • Penobscot Maritime Museum
    • Kittery Historical and Naval Museum
    • US Navy Ships Named for People of the State of Maine
  • Other Builders of the Ships Named for Places in the State of Maine:
    • Newport News Shipbuilding
    • Todd Shipyards
    • William Cramp & Sons
    • Ingalls Shipbuilding

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