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[[File:USS Hornet Memorial Plaque.jpg|thumb|Memorial Plaque for American naval ships named Hornet from 1775 to 1970]]

Eight ships of the [[United States Navy]] have been named '''USS ''Hornet''''', after [[Hornet|the stinging insect]]:
* {{USS|Hornet|1775}}, a 10-gun [[Sloop-of-war|sloop]] [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] in 1775, served in the [[American Revolutionary War]].
* {{USS|Hornet|1805 sloop}}, also a 10-gun sloop, took part in the [[First Barbary War]].
* {{USS|Hornet|1805 brig}}, a [[brig]]-rigged sloop-of-war, was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829.
* {{USS|Hornet|1813}} was a five-gun [[schooner]] used as a [[dispatch vessel]] between 1814 and 1820.
* {{USS|Hornet|1865}}, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer.
* {{USS|Hornet|1898}}, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the [[Spanish–American War]].
* {{USS|Hornet|CV-8}} launched the [[Doolittle Raid]] in 1942, fought at the [[Battle of Midway]], and was sunk at the [[Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands]] on 26 October 1942.
* {{USS|Hornet|CV-12}} was originally named ''Kearsarge'', but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II, as well as portions of the [[Vietnam War]]. She later served as the recovery vessel for [[Apollo 11]] and [[Apollo 12|12]] in 1969, before decommissioning the following year. She is preserved as a [[museum ship]] in [[Alameda, California]].<ref>{{cite DANFS |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/alphabetical-listing/h/uss-hornet--cv-12-cva-12-cvs-12-0.html |title=USS Hornet (CV-12/CVA-12/CVS-12) |access-date=9 November 2023}}</ref>

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