USS_Block_Island

USS<i> Block Island</i>

USS Block Island

List of ships with the same or similar names

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Block Island, after Block Island Sound.

USS Block Island (CVE-8), was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 9 January 1943 and commissioned the following day as HMS Hunter (D80).
USS Block Island (CVE-21), went into service in March 1943, and was sunk in May 1944.
USS Block Island (CVE-106), was commissioned in December 1944 and active in the closing months of the Pacific War, and periodically in use until 1954.

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.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article USS_Block_Island, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.