title: USS Arctic
text: # USS Arctic
  
  USS Arctic is the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy:
  
  * USS Arctic (1855), a screw steamer built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard
  * Ice Boat No. 3, an 1873 municipal icebreaker briefly commissioned as the patrol vessel USS Arctic in the Spanish–American War
  * USS Arctic (SP-1158), a 1913 tugboat used as a convoy escort in World War I
  * USS Arctic (AF-7), an Arctic-class stores ship which saw service in World War II
  * USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8), a fast combat support ship, commissioned as USS Arctic from 1995 to 2002
  