USS John Rodgers explained

Three ships of the United States Navy have been USS John Rodgers for John Rodgers, his son, John Rodgers and his great grandson, John Rodgers.

• , was a lighthouse tender and part of the Lighthouse Service run by the Navy from 1917 to 1919
• , was a, commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946
• , was a, commissioned in 1979 and decommissioned in 1998