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Three ships of the
United States Navy
have been named
Bancroft
in honor of
George Bancroft
.
USS
Bancroft
(1892)
, was a gunboat, launched in 1892, commissioned in 1893 and decommissioned in 1906.
USS
Bancroft
(DD-256)
, was a
Clemson
-class destroyer, commissioned in 1919 and transferred to the
Royal Canadian Navy
in 1940 as HMCS
St. Francis
.
USS
Bancroft
(DD-598)
, was a
Benson
-class destroyer commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1946.
See also
USS
George Bancroft
(SSBN-643)
Sources
This article incorporates text from the
public domain
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
. The entry can be found
here
.
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