USS Hornet

The USS Hornet consists of eight ships of the United States Navy that served in several wars and missions.

The USS Hornet consists of eight ships of the United States Navy, including USS Hornet (1775), USS Hornet (1805 sloop), USS Hornet (1805 brig), USS Hornet (1813), USS Hornet (1865), USS Hornet (1898), USS Hornet (CV-8), and USS Hornet (CV-12). The USS Hornet (1775) was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775 and served in the American Revolutionary War. USS Hornet (1805 sloop) was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War. USS Hornet (1805 brig) was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on July 28, 1805, and sank in a storm on September 29, 1829. USS Hornet (1813) was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820. USS Hornet (1865), the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. USS Hornet (1898), a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish–American War. USS Hornet (CV-8), launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, 1942. USS Hornet (CV-12) was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California.