USS Essex
USS Essex is a traditional ship name of the American Navy. To date, the name was five times awarded.
- USS Essex (1799 ), a sailing frigate into service: 1799, lost to Great Britain: 1814
- USS Essex (1856 ), a steam-driven, steel- clad gunboat on the Mississippi River, built in 1856, decommissioned 1865
- USS Essex (1876 ), a steamship into service: 1876, out of service: in 1889, after training ship of the militia of Ohio
- USS Essex (CV -9 ), an aircraft carrier into service: 1942, out of service: 1969
- USS Essex (LHD- 2), a landing ship, commissioning: 1992
- Ship name of the United States Navy