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USS Houston

Four United States Navy ships have borne the name Houston, after the city of Houston, Texas.

  • The first Houston (AK-1)[?] was originally the German freighter Liebenfels, scuttled in 1917, but then raised by the Navy and used as a transport during World War I.



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