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Maryland Ships List Highlights State Named Navy Vessels
Capt Charles F Macklin, commander of the Maryland Naval Reserve, catalogs naval vessels named for Maryland, Baltimore, and Marylanders. He notes ships from a 1799 Maryland to a modern Pacific battle ship, cruisers Baltimore and Frederick, and nineteen destroyers named for Maryland-born officers and enlisted men including Murray, Schley, Dent, Buchanan, Kilty, Clayton, Barney, Talbott, Maddox, Stansbury, Semmes, Ford, Rodgers, Greene, Flusser, Stoddert, Kennedy, Wood, and Decatur.
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Charles F. Macklin
Maryland Naval Reserve
State of
Maryland
Baltimore
Navy
State
Pacific
Frederick
Manila Bay
US. Murray
Alexander Murray
Chestertown
U. S. S. Schley
Winfield Scott Schley
Richfields
Fredrick
U .S. & Dent
John H Dent
U.S. S. Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan
Virginia
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
S. S. Kilty
Augustus H. Kilty
S&s. S. Clayton
Thomas Claxton
U. S
Stansbury
John Stansbury
U. 3
Semmes
Raphael Semmes
U. 8. Navy
Alabama
John PD. Ford
John Donaldson Ford
Cumberland
Monitor
Merrimack Uws
Flusser
Charles W. Flusser
Annapolis
Albemarle
Os. S. Stoddert
Benjamin
Stephen Decatur
U. S Navy