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U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Devin Dorney
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) shown moored in Singapore after a successful mission to search for and locate missing Adam Air Flight KI 574, which disappeared off the coast of West Sulawesi, Indonesia on Jan. 1, 2007. During the mission a search team aboard Mary Sears located pingers from Flight KI 574 and mapped the aircraft’s debris field at a depth between 1500 and 1900 meters.
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Pocahontas (YT-266), a harbor tug commissioned in 1942 and named for Pocahontas.
Sacagawea (YT-326) (later designation of YTM-326), a harbor tug that served in Charleston harbor from 1942 to 1945.
Watseka (YT-387), a 1944 harbor tug named for a Potawatomi woman.
USS Higbee (DD-806), 1945 a Gearing-class destroyer named for Lenah S. Higbee, Superintendent of Navy Nurse Corps 1911-1922, Higbee served in Fast Carrier Force. She was the first ship laid down, christened, and commissioned for a woman who had served in the U.S. Navy, and the first to see combat so named.
USS Hopper (DDG-70), 1996. Built and commissioned at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is named for Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, a computer technology pioneer who led the Navy into the digital age.
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is explicitly named for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt
USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE-2) was announced in 2000. She is the second of a new class of replenishment ships.
USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65), an oceanographic survey ship, was launched in October 2000 and is still active as of 2005. She was named for Commander Mary Sears.
USS Anna B. Smith (ID-1458)
USS Bella (ID-2211)
USS Annie B. Embry (ID-2401)
USS Luella (ID-2691)
USS Sara Thompson (ID-3148) later reclassified AO-8
USNS AMELIA EARHART (T-AKE 6)