Delaware (disambiguation)

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Delaware may refer to:

Title of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom the following were named:

  • Delaware, the U. S. state
  • Lenape, the Native American tribe also known as the Delaware
  • Lenape language, the Algonquian language of the Lenape tribe
  • Delaware River, a major river in the eastern United States, rising in New York State, forming the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and emptying into Delaware Bay, which separates New Jersey from the state of Delaware.
  • Delaware Colony

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[edit] Cities, towns or boroughs

[edit] Townships

[edit] Counties

[edit] Navy ships

There have been at least six United States Navy ships named Delaware:

  • USS Delaware (1776), a 24-gun frigate built in 1776 and captured by the British in 1777
  • USS Delaware (1798), a 20-gun ship purchased in 1798
  • USS Delaware (1820), a 74-gun ship of the line, launched 1820 and burned in 1861
  • USS Delaware (1861), a side-wheel steamer built in 1861 and decommissioned in 1865
  • USS Delaware (1869), a screw steamer renamed from Piscataque in 1869
  • USS Delaware (BB-28), a battleship commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1924

[edit] Other uses