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Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect.
- USS Hornet (1775)Template:WP Ships USS instances, was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War
- USS Hornet (1805 sloop)Template:WP Ships USS instances, was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War
- USS Hornet (1805 brig)Template:WP Ships USS instances, was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829
- USS Hornet (1813)Template:WP Ships USS instances was a five-gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1814 and 1820
- USS Hornet (1865)Template:WP Ships USS instances, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer
- USS Hornet (1898)Template:WP Ships USS instances, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War
- USS Hornet (CV-8)Template:WP Ships USS instances, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz
Islands on 26 October 1942
- USS Hornet (CV-12)Template:WP Ships USS instances was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and
is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California
In the modern U.S. Navy, the F/A-18 Hornet and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters continue the name "Hornet" into the 21st Century.