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Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named 'USS ''Hornet''', after the stinging insect.
★ The first ''Hornet'' was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War. The first two ships in the new Continental Navy were ''Hornet'' and ''Wasp''.
★ The second ''Hornet'' was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War. In company with two other American ships, she attacked the port of Derne and silenced its guns in a battle lasting less than an hour. This allowed a combined force of about 400 United States Marines and Arab, Greek, and Berber mercenaries who had made a gruelling 400 mile overland march to capture the city - an event immortalized in the Marine Hymn "To the shores of Tripoli".
★ The third ''Hornet'' was a brig-rigged sloop of war was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October. ''Hornet'' sank in a storm off Tampico, Mexico on 29 September, 1829 with the loss of all on board.
★ The fourth ''Hornet'' was a five gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1813 and 1820.
★ The fifth ''Hornet'', the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer.
★ The sixth ''Hornet'', a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War.
★ The seventh ''Hornet'', CV-8, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942 along with ''Enterprise'', fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
★ The eighth ''Hornet'' (CV/CVA/CVS-12) was originally named ''Kearsarge'', but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II. She later recovered both ''Apollo 11'' and ''Apollo 12'' crews, and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
The F/A-18 strike fighter carries on the name ''Hornet'' in the Navy.
★ The USS Hornet Museum
★ The first ''Hornet'' was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War. The first two ships in the new Continental Navy were ''Hornet'' and ''Wasp''.
★ The second ''Hornet'' was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War. In company with two other American ships, she attacked the port of Derne and silenced its guns in a battle lasting less than an hour. This allowed a combined force of about 400 United States Marines and Arab, Greek, and Berber mercenaries who had made a gruelling 400 mile overland march to capture the city - an event immortalized in the Marine Hymn "To the shores of Tripoli".
★ The third ''Hornet'' was a brig-rigged sloop of war was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October. ''Hornet'' sank in a storm off Tampico, Mexico on 29 September, 1829 with the loss of all on board.
★ The fourth ''Hornet'' was a five gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1813 and 1820.
★ The fifth ''Hornet'', the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer.
★ The sixth ''Hornet'', a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War.
★ The seventh ''Hornet'', CV-8, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942 along with ''Enterprise'', fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
★ The eighth ''Hornet'' (CV/CVA/CVS-12) was originally named ''Kearsarge'', but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II. She later recovered both ''Apollo 11'' and ''Apollo 12'' crews, and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.
The F/A-18 strike fighter carries on the name ''Hornet'' in the Navy.
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★ The USS Hornet Museum
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