USS Lafayette

Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Lafayette for Marquis de Lafayette.

USS Lafayette (1848), was built in 1848 as Aleck Scott, and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamed Lafayette 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold
USS Lafayette (AP-53), was launched as the French built Normandie 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 then struck in 1945
USS Lafayette (SSBN-616), was the lead ship of the Lafayette-class submarine, commissioned in 1963, and decommissioned in 1991

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