have been named USS Varuna for Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned. The first USS Varuna (1861) was a screw...

USS Varuna was a screw steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Under construction in 1861, she was purchased incomplete on 31...

USS Varuna (AGP-5) was a Portunus-class motor torpedo boat tender of the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was laid down on 23 August 1942...

scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the Union's USS Monitor in March 1862...

USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...

district of India 20000 Varuna, a trans-Neptunian object USS Varuna, two vessels INS Varuna, an Indian Navy sail training vessel SS Varuna, a steamship operating...

the name, and only one of three ships (along with USS Krishna and the Civil War era gunboat USS Varuna) to be named after a Hindu deity. Originally laid...

engagement Stonewall Jackson rammed USS Varuna, which had already been struck by CSS Governor Moore. With Varuna's shot glancing off her bow, Stonewall...

California in 1860–1861. In December 1861 Boggs was given command of the gunboat Varuna. The following April, during the Capture of New Orleans, he commanded her...

USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...