USS America may refer to: USS America, a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1777, but not launched until 1782 and thereupon given to France USS America, a 19th-century racing yacht converted for United States naval service during the American Civil War USS America, originally the German ocean liner SS Amerika, seized by the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996. Wikipedia