Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Varuna for Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.
- The first USS Varuna (1861) was a screw gunboat launched in 1861 and sunk by enemy action in April 1862.
- The second USS Varuna (AGP-5) was a motorboat tender, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946.
See also
edit- SS Varuna, a 670 GRT American passenger/cargo steamer built in 1869 by Chas Mallory at Mystic, Connecticut for the Mallory Line that sank in 1870.[1]
References
edit- ^ "SS Varuna (+1870)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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