The first USS Virginia was a 28-gun sailing frigate built in 1776, captured by the British in the following year and taken into their service as HMS Virginia.
The third Virginia was a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1818 but never launched, and broken up on the stocks in 1874.
A captured Spanish blockade runnerVirginia was a Navy ship between 1863 and 1865. or The fourth USS Virginia, originally known as Pet and as Noe-Daquy, was captured during the American Civil War and commissioned in the Union Navy.
The fifth Virginia (BB-13) was a battleship commissioned in 1906, decommissioned in 1920, and destroyed in 1923 as a bombing target.
The sixth USS Virginia (SP-274), a yacht purchased by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-274, patrolled Lake Michigan out of Detroit, Michigan during World War I.
The seventh USS Virginia (SP-746), a motorboat acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-746, patroled the coast out of Machias, Maine during World War I.
The eighth USS Virginia (SP-1965), a two-masted auxiliary schooner acquired by the Navy and officially referred to only as SP-1965, patroled the coast out of Norfolk, Virginia during World War I.
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USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 35th state.
West Virginia drilled her landing force in preparation for the upcoming occupation of the erstwhile enemy's homeland and sailed for Tokyo Bay on 24 August as part of TG 35.90.
West Virginia entered her final stages of inactivation in the latter part of February 1946 and was decommissioned on 9 January 1947 and placed in reserve, as part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Virginia was given its nickname "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration for remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War.
Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west.
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