USS Penguin has been the name of three United States Navy ships:
USS Penguin (1861), a steamer purchased at New York on 23 May 1861 which served in the U.S. Navy until 1865.
USS Penguin (AM-33), a minesweeper laid down 17 November 1917 at the New Jersey Dry Dock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey which served in the U.S. Navy from 1918 to 1941.
USS Penguin (ASR-12), a submarine rescue vessel laid down as USS Chetco (AT-99) by the Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, South Carolina, 9 February 1943, and commissioned in 1944.
USFS Penguin, a United States Bureau of Fisheries ship in commission from 1930 to 1940
US FWS Penguin, a United States Fish and Wildlife Service ship in commission from 1940 to 1950
US FWS Penguin II, a United States Fish and Wildlife Service ship in commission from 1950 to 1963
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.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
