Four commissioned ships of the United States Navy have borne the name
USS Kearsarge. The first was named for a mountain in
New Hampshire; the later ones were named in honor of the first.
The sloop of war[?] USS Kearsarge
fought one of the American Civil War's most memorable naval actions.
The battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5)
sailed with the Great White Fleet.
The aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12)
was briefly named Kearsarge before she was launched.
The aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CV-33)[?]
served in the Korean War and the Vietnamese War[?].
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is a
Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
commissioned in 1993.
