Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index At least three United States Navy ships have been named USS Raritan, after the Raritan River in New Jersey. The first Raritan was a sailing frigate launched in 1843, one of the last in the Navy. The second Raritan was ???. The third Raritan was a landing ship commissioned in 1945. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.