USS Vengeance

USS Vengeance has been the name of two ships in the United States Navy.

The first Vengeance was a former merchant ship that served under the command of John Paul Jones in the Revolutionary War. The French Royal Navy purchased her at Bordeaux in 1779 for Jones and sold her when she arrived at Dunkirk in January 1780 after the battle between Bonhomme Richard and the rest of Jones's squadron on the one side, and HMS Serapis and hired armed ship Countess of Scarborough on the other.^[1]
The second Vengeance was used as a bomb ketch against the Barbary pirates in the early 19th century.

USS Vengeance is also the name of a fictitious large, heavily armed, and unmarked Federation warship, designed by Khan and commanded by Admiral Alexander Marcus. It appears in the motion picture Star Trek Into Darkness.

Citations

↑ Demerliac (1996), p.79, #512.

References

Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3

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