USS Independence may refer to:

• USS Independence (1776 brig) was a brigantine built at Kingston, Massachusetts in mid-1776. The brig served in the Massachusetts State Navy
  Massachusetts State Navy
  The Massachusetts State Navy , a naval militia active during the American Revolutionary War was founded December 29, 1775, to defend the interests of Massachusetts from British forces....
  
   and cruised off New England until captured by the Royal Navy in early 1777.

• USS Independence (1776 sloop)
  USS Independence (1776 sloop)
  USS Independence was a sloop in the Continental Navy. Acting as a dispatch boat, she was sent to France on a diplomatic mission – carrying important dispatches...
  
   was a 10-gun sloop commissioned in September 1776 and wrecked in 1778

was the first ship of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 in the Navy, launched 22 June 1814 and finally used as a receiving ship until being decommissioned 3 November 1912
was a steamer commissioned 16 November 1918 and decommissioned 20 March 1919. She was later renamed Neville and used in World War II
, was a light aircraft carrier

Light aircraft carrier

A light aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier that is smaller than the standard carriers of a navy. The precise definition of the type varies by country; light carriers typically have a complement of aircraft only ½ to ⅔ the size of a full-sized or "fleet" carrier.-History:In World War II, the...

, launched 22 August 1942; decommissioned 28 August 1946 and sunk during weapon testing 29 January 1951
, was an aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

 commissioned in 1959 and decommissioned in 1998
is a Littoral Combat Ship

Littoral combat ship

A Littoral Combat Ship is a type of relatively small surface vessel intended for operations in the littoral zone . It is "envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals." Two ship classes are the first...

commissioned in January 2010