USS Absecon

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Absecon, after Absecon Inlet, located north of Atlantic City, New Jersey:

* USS Absecon (ID-3131) was a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter built in 1918, which saw less than one month of non-commissioned service in October–November 1918
* USS Absecon (AVP-23) was a Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission as a catapult training ship from 1943 to 1947

See also

* USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374), later WHEC-374

## Sources[edit]

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

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