USS Bainbridge
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USS Bainbridge may refer to any of five warships named after the early U.S. Navy hero William Bainbridge:
- USS Bainbridge (1842), was a 12-gun brig commissioned in 1842 and lost off Cape Hatteras in 1863.
- USS Bainbridge (DD-1), was the first destroyer of the US Navy, in service from 1902 to 1919.
- USS Bainbridge (DD-246), was a destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and sold in 1945.
- USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), was commissioned as a nuclear-powered frigate and in service from 1962 to 1996. In 1975 during Naval reorganization, she was redesignated as a cruiser.<www.navysite.de/cg/cgn25.htm, ussbainbridgeassociation.com/history.html, www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cgn-25.htm >
- USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned on 12 November 2005 and currently in service.
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