USS Eel may refer to:

pl: USS Eel

Richardson is given a new command, USS Eel, when her skipper comes down with tuberculosis.

* USS Bedford, a fictitious ship in the 1965 movie The Bedford Incident

The film depicts a mutiny aboard a fictitious World War II U. S. Navy destroyer minesweeper, the USS Caine ( DMS-18 ), and the subsequent court-martial of two officers.

In this version the hero, Ed Jones, remains at his station aboard the fictitious < i > USS Boon </ i > during the Battle of Midway.

* A fictitious U. S. Navy nuclear submarine named USS Neptune was the setting of the 1978 movie Gray Lady Down

" USS Bedford " was a fictitious guided missile destroyer, and the role of Bedford was mostly played by a large model of a Farragut-class destroyer.

* A fictitious submarine named USS Corsair was the setting for the 1943 movie " Crash Dive.

* A fictitious third Stingray — the World War II diesel-electric submarine USS Stingray ( SS-161 )-is featured in the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope.

* USS Stingray ( SS-161 ), fictitious U. S. Navy diesel engine submarine featured in the 1996 comedy film Down Periscope

* USS Aquila ( AK-47 ), an Aquila-class cargo ship commissioned by the U. S. Navy for service in World War II

During World War II, a US submarine, the USS Puffer ( SS-268 ), came under several hours of depth charge attack by a Japanese surface vessel until the ship became convinced the submarine had somehow escaped.

USS McGowan ( DD-678 ) | USS McGowan, a Fletcher class destroyer | Fletcher-class destroyer during World War II

* USS Hilbert ( DE-742 ), a US Navy destroyer escort of World War II

He served briefly in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, briefly commanding two ships, the USS YP-422 and USS PC-815.

Three US Naval ships have been named after this battle, including the USS Lake Champlain ( CV-39 ), the USS Lake Champlain ( CG-57 ), and a cargo ship used during World War I.

* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

* 1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

* USS Phobos ( AK-129 ), a World War II U. S. Navy Crater-class cargo ship

:: USS Thresher ( SS-200 ), a Tambor-class submarine that served in World War II

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

* USS Birmingham ( CL-62 ), a light cruiser, in service from 1943 to 1946 and involved in heavy fighting in the Pacific Ocean during World War II

* USS Denver ( CL-58 ), a light cruiser commissioned 1942 and on active service in World War II, decommissioned in 1947

* USS Bullhead ( SS-332 ), the last US Navy ship sunk by enemy action during World War II

In naval history, an early 20th century British Merchant Navy freight ship SS Tantalus and a United States Navy landing craft repair ship of the World War II ( USS Tantalus ( ARL-27 )) were named after Tantalus.

* USS Mustin ( DD-413 ), was a Sims-class destroyer during World War II

* USS Merrimack ( AO-37 ), 1942 – 1954, a Kennebec-class fleet oiler, served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II

On 10 April 1942, after America's entry into World War II, Rickover flew to Pearl Harbor to organize repairs to the electrical power plant of the USS California.

* The second USS Omaha ( CL-4 ), the lead ship of the Omaha-class of light cruiser, served during World War II

* USS Cisco, World War II submarine

* USS Montpelier ( CL-57 ), a Cleveland class cruiser which served in the Pacific during World War II

* USS Quick ( DD-490 ), a US Navy ship during World War II

* USS Little Ada ( 1864 ), steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

* 1814 – War of 1812: The American schooner USS Carolina is destroyed.

* USS Glaucus ( 1863 ), a steamship of the Union Navy during the American Civil War

Edgerton participated in the discovery of the American Civil War battleship USS Monitor.

* 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon.

* 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

The well known USS Liberty incident in 1967 and USS Pueblo incident in 1968 are a small sample of the losses endured during the Cold War.

* ( Personal account of mine countermeasures operations in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War 1991, including the mining of USS Tripoli.

** Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.