USS Princeton explained

USS Princeton may refer to:

• , a screw sloop, launched and commissioned in 1843, the first screw-driven vessel in the Navy and the subject of a fatal gun explosion in 1844
• , a transport and training ship, launched in 1851 and commissioned in 1852
• , a gunboat launched in 1897 and commissioned in 1898
• , a light aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1943, sunk at Leyte Gulf in 1944
• , an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1945, serving in the Korean War and Vietnam War, reclassified LPH-5 in 1959, decommissioned 1970
• , a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1989, currently in active service