USS Vincennes: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com

Four United States Navy ships have been named USS Vincennes, after the town of Vincennes, Indiana, site of an important victory in the American Revolution.

The first Vincennes was an 18-gun sloop-of-war[?] commissioned in 1826, the first Navy vessel to circumnavigate the globe.

The third Vincennes (CL-64)[?] was a light cruiser commissioned in 1944 and active in the war, and decommissioned in 1946.

The fourth Vincennes (CG-49) is a guided missile cruiser[?] commissioned 1985 and notorious for shooting down an Iranian airliner in 1988.

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