USS Absecon

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Absecon, after Absecon Inlet, located north of Atlantic City, New Jersey:

• USS Absecon (ID-3131) was a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter built in 1918, which saw less than one month of non-commissioned service in October–November 1918
• USS Absecon (AVP-23), was a Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission as a catapult training ship from 1943 to 1947

See also

• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374), later WHEC-374

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.