USS Massachusetts explained

Eight ships of the United States Navy and Revenue-Marine have been named USS Massachusetts, after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

• , a topsail schooner, was the first Revenue-Marine cutter of the United States, sold in 1792.
• , a sloop built to replace .
• , was a wooden steamer that saw action during the Mexican–American War and in Puget Sound.
• , was an iron screw steamer that saw action during the American Civil War.
• , was the never-launched monitor Passaconaway renamed first to Thunderer then to Massachusetts before being scrapped in 1884.
• was an commissioned in 1896 and the second battleship procured by the United States Navy, saw action in the Spanish–American War, scuttled in 1921.
• , was purchased by the U.S. Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918.
• would have been a battleship of the first South Dakota class, canceled by the Washington Naval Treaty in 1923.
• is a battleship of the second South Dakota class, commissioned in 1942 and which saw action in World War II, now a museum ship in Fall River, Massachusetts.
• is a laid down in 2020.