Six ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Tennessee in honor of the 16th state.
SS Republic (1853), originally Tennessee, was a paddlewheel steamer captured from the Confederacy at New Orleans on 2 April 1862.
CSS Tennessee (1863) was a Confederate ironclad captured from the Confederacy in the Battle of Mobile Bay on 16 February 1864.
USS Tennessee (1865) was a wooden screw frigate originally built and named as Madawaska.
USS Tennessee (ACR-10) was the lead ship of her class of armored cruiser.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) was the lead ship of her class of battleship.
USS Tennessee (SSBN-734) is an Ohio-class submarine.
