USS Bancroft
List of ships with the same or similar names
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Bancroft in honor of George Bancroft.
- USS Bancroft (1892), was a gunboat, launched in 1892, commissioned in 1893 and decommissioned in 1906.
- USS Bancroft (DD-256), was a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1919 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940 as HMCS St. Francis.
- USS Bancroft (DD-598), was a Benson-class destroyer commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1946.
See also
Sources
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.