Three ships in the United States Navy have been namedUSSLafayette forMarquis de Lafayette.
USS Lafayette (1848), was built in 1848 asAleck Scott, and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamedLafayette on 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold
USS Lafayette (AP-53), was launched as the French-builtNormandie and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant and then struck in 1945
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