Two ships of the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 have borne the name USS Auburn. The first was probably named for the town of Auburn, Pennsylvania

Auburn, Pennsylvania

There is also an Auburn Township in Pennsylvania.Auburn is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 839 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Auburn is located at ....

, situated on a tributary of the Little Schuylkill River

Little Schuylkill River

Little Schuylkill River is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in northeast Pennsylvania in the United States.It rises south of McAdoo Heights in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on top of Broad Mountain. It flows south, then southwest passing through the communities of Tamaqua and New Ringgold....

, Schuylkill County

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

-Notable people:*Boxing heavyweight great Muhammad Ali had his training camp in Deer Lake.*Charles Justin Bailey, commanding general of the 81st Division in World War I, was born in Tamaqua on June 21, 1859....

, northwest of Chester, Pa.

Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 33,972 at the 2010 census. Chester is situated on the Delaware River, between the cities of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.- History :...

, where the ship was built. The second Auburn (AGC-10) was named for Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn is the name of several places in the United States:*Mount Auburn, Illinois*Mount Auburn Township, Illinois*Mount Auburn, Indiana*Mount Auburn, Iowa*Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts*Mount Auburn Historic District in Cincinnati, Ohio...

, northwest of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

. The name itself is found in Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer, poet and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer...

's long poem, "The Deserted Village" (1770).

• USS Auburn (ID-3842)
  USS Auburn (ID-3842)
  The first USS Auburn was a cargo ship in the United States Navy.Auburn was a steel-hulled freighter built for the United States Shipping Board at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Chester Shipbuilding Company and completed in 1918. She was delivered to the Navy by the USSB for service in the Naval...
  
   was a freighter
  Cargo ship
  A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...
  
  , which was launched in 1918. She was commissioned on 24 January 1919 and decommissioned on 22 February 1919. She remained in the USSB
  United States Shipping Board
  The United States Shipping Board was established as an emergency agency by the Shipping Act , 7 September 1916. It was formally organized 30 January 1917. It was sometimes referred to as the War Shipping Board.http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/Hurley/bridgeTC.htm | The Bridge To France by Edward N....
  
   fleet until around 1932–1933, when she was "abandoned ... due to age and deterioration."

• USS Auburn (AGC-10)
  USS Auburn (AGC-10)
  USS Auburn was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named after Mount Auburn, northwest of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
  
   was a Catoctin-class command ship
  Command ship
  Command ships serve as the flagships of the Commander of a fleet. They provide communications, office space, and accommodations for a fleet commander and his staff, and serve to coordinate fleet activities....
  
  . Originally Katkay, the ship was launched in 1943. She was acquired by the Navy, converted, and renamed in 1944. Auburn was struck in 1960 and sold for scrap in 1961.