Only one vessel of the United States Navy has been named USS Wilmington, after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, although the name was intended for two others.
USS Wilmington (1895)
The only completed Wilmington was Gunboat No. 8, commissioned in 1897, renamed Dover in 1941, and continuing in service until 1945.
What was to be the second Wilmington (CL-79) was completed as the aircraft carrierCabot (CVL-28).
Another light cruiser, Wilmington (CL-111), was laid down in March 1945, but suspended in August and later scrapped.
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USSWilmington (CL-111) was scrapped prior to completion.
She was the third ship to be scheduled to be named for a city in Delaware.
She was laid down 5 March 1945 by William Cramp and Sons, but with the end of the war, construction was suspended 12 August 1945 and the hulk subsequently scrapped.
USS Hatteras was a United States Navy gunboat during the American Civil War.
Command of USS Hatteras was transferred to Commander Homer C. Blake and assigned, on 06 January 1863 to patrol off of Galveston, Texas.
On 11 January 1863 USS Hatteras encountered the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama under Captain Raphael Semmes flying the British flag (an acceptable practice under the law of the sea at the time) and indicating that she was the HMS Spitfire.
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