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USS Seminole

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2021
Entity authorityQ761465 ↗
Source-derived summary

USS Seminole may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

USS Seminole (1859), launched in 1859, commissioned in 1860 and decommissioned in 1865.

USS Seminole (1879), a tug, built in 1879, purchased as Kate Jones in 1898 and commissioned the same year. She was decommissioned in 1898, and transferred to the War Department in 1900.

USS Seminole (AT-65), commissioned in 1940 and sunk by enemy action in October 1942.

USS Seminole (AKA-104), commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1970.

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“USS Seminole” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Seminole, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1859, 1860, 1865, 1879—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Seminole, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q761465. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859, 1860, 1865 and 1879.

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This entry incorporates text from “USS Seminole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.