A Wikipedia search for USS New York brings up seven predecessors burned, sold, scuttled and sunk:
USS New York may refer to:
- USS New York (1776), was a gondola, built on Lake Champlain in 1776, that participated in the Battle of Valcour Island.
- USS New York (1800), was a 36-gun frigate commissioned in 1800 and burned by the British in 1814.
- USS New York (1820), was a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1820 which never left the stocks, and was burned in 1861.
- A screw sloop named Ontario was laid down in 1863; renamed New York in 1869, and sold while still on the stocks, in 1888.
- USS New York (ACR-2), was an armored cruiser commissioned in 1893, in action in the Spanish-American War, renamed to Saratoga in 1911, renamed Rochester in 1917, decommissioned in 1933, and scuttled in 1941.
- USS New York (BB-34), was a battleship laid down in 1911, commissioned in 1914, in action in both World Wars, decommissioned in 1946 and sunk as a target after surviving two atomic bombs tests in 1946.
- USS New York City (SSN-696), was a Los Angeles class submarine launched in 1977 and retired in 1997.
- USS New York (LPD-21), is an amphibious transport dock, launched in 2007 and partly constructed with metal salvaged from the World Trade Center
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