Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Three United States Navy ships have been named USS America, after America, the large landmass of the Western Hemisphere. The first America was a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1777, but not launched until 1782, at which time she was given to France and used there for a few years before being broken up. The second America was originally the German liner Amerika seized in World War I and used as a transport during the war. The third America (CV-66) was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned 1996. She now sits at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.