USS Circe

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Circe, after Circe, the sorceress in Homer's Odyssey.

USS Circe only carried that name from 15 June to 10 August 1869 and was previously the Marietta.
USS Circe (AKA-25) was launched on 4 August 1944 by the Walsh-Kaiser Company in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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