USS Sumter

USS Sumter

USS "Sumter" may refer to:

* CSS "Sumter" a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War
*, the former CSS "General Sumter", a cottonclad ram captured in 1862
* (previously AP-97), an attack transport; formerly "Iberville"
*, a tank landing ship


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