USS Varuna

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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 Varuna was a screw gunboat launched in 1861 and sunk by enemy action in April of 1862.
  • The second Varuna (AGP-5) was a motorboat tender, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946.
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