USS Dallas

Two commissioned ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Dallas. The first ship was named after Alexander J. Dallas and the second after Dallas, Texas. Two other ships to honor the city were planned, but never completed.

• The USS Dallas (DD-199), was a Clemson class destroyer commissioned in 1920, in service during World War II, and scrapped 1946.

• A Des Moines class heavy cruiser to be named Dallas (CA-140) was cancelled during construction in 1946. It was only ship of her class to be cancelled (3 others were built and launched)

• Another Des Moines class heavy cruiser, USS Dallas (CA-150), was cancelled before start of construction in 1945. She was one of five ships in the batch cancelled before building began.

• The USS Dallas (SSN-700), is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine commissioned in 1981 and currently in active service.

See also

• MV Dallas City was a British built transport ship launched in 1936 and sunk during an air raid in 1940. ^[1]

• City of Dallas was a wooden, screw steam-ship built for Morgan Line in 1884 and used by Macheca Line until 1894; sunk 80 miles off Colón in 1896.^[2]

For the US Coast Guard cutter, see USCGC Dallas (WHEC-716).

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