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Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Bunker Hill, in remembrance of the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War:

• USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), was an Essex-class aircraft carrier that fought in the Pacific in World War II and was damaged by Kamikaze attacks
• USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1986 and decommissioned in 2023

Merchant ships

• Bunker Hill was acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 and commissioned as USS Aroostook (CM-3).
• Bunker Hill a civilian-operated T2 tanker steamship, sank on 6 March 1964 after an explosion. She broke in two near Anacortes, Washington.

References

1. Bunker Hill I, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
2. Bunker Hill II, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

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