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Five ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Connecticut in honor of Connecticut, the fifth state to join the Union:

• The first Connecticut , a gondola, served with the Continental Army on Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War.

• The second Connecticut, 26 , served during the Quasi-War.

• The third Connecticut was a sidewheel steamer launched in 1861 that saw action in the American Civil War.

• The fourth Connecticut (BB-18), lead ship of her class of battleship, sailed with the Great White Fleet and saw action during World War I.

• The fifth Connecticut (SSN-22)USS Connecticut (SSN-22 a Seawolf class submarine, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the fifth state. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on is the second Seawolf-class submarineSeawolf (SSN-575) Class The second nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Seawolf (SSN-575), which served from the early 1950s through 1987, was unique, and so can be considered the lead boat of the Seawolf (SSN-575) class". Since she had no sister ships, how.

In addition to the five ships officially and permanently named USS Connecticut, there were two that had the name at one point:

• Pompanoosuc , a screw steamer, was renamed Connecticut while still in the ways; she was condemned and broken up before ever being launched.

• A monitorUSS Monitor became the prototype of a form of ship built by several navies for coastal defence in the 1860s and 1870s and known as a monitor . It was a low freeboard, mastless steam-powered vessel with one or two rotating armoured turrets. The low freeboa was named Connecticut while under construction, but was commissioned as Nevada . A few year later, she was renamed Tonopah , and served as a submarine tenderA submarine tender is a type of ship that supplies and supports submarines. Submarines are relatively small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally do not have the ability to carry large amounts of food, fuel, torpedoes, and other supplies, nor under that name during World War I.