List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR),^[1] although it does not include early vessels. The NVR US Navy Inactive Classification Symbols^[2] is a concise list of inactive definitions. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships ^[3] includes much detail on historical ships, and was used as the basis for many of Wikipedia's ship articles.

Due to the large number of entries, this list has been divided into the lists to be found in the infobox:

• Ships in current service
• Ships grouped alphabetically by the first letter of the ship's name
• Ships grouped by type

• List of U.S. military vessels named after living Americans
• List of U.S. military vessels named after women
• List of United States Navy ships named after US states
• List of United States Navy losses in World War II - abbreviated list
• List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II - detailed list
• List of ships of the United States Army
• List of ships of the United States Air Force
• List of ships of the United States Coast Guard
• List of museum ships of the United States military
• History of the United States Navy
• Hull classification symbol