AB – Crane Ship
	AB-1 Kearsarge / Crane Ship No. 1	1920	1955	mod. BB-5 Kearsarge Class
ADG – Degaussing Ship
	ADG-8 Lodestone	1945	1961	mod. AM-136 Admirable, PCE Class
	ADG-383 Surfbird	1955	1970	mod. AM-57 Auk Class
AGB – Ice Breaker
	AGB-1 Burton Island	1949	1966	mod. AG-88 Burton Island Class
	AGB-4 Glacier	1955	1966
AH – Hospital Ship
	AH Relief / Repose	1908	1910
	AH-1 Relief	1920	1946
	AH-2 Solace	1898	1921
	AH-3 Comfort	1918	1934
	AH-5 Solace	1941	1946
	AH-6 Comfort	1944	1946	[C1-B(S)]
	AH-9 Bountiful	1944	1946	mod. AP-1 Henderson Class
	AH-10 Samaritan	1944	1946	mod. AP-4 Argonne Class [Hog Island Type B]
	AH-11 Refuge	1944	1946	mod. AP-62 Kenmore Class
	AH-12 Haven	1945	1974	[C4-S-B2]
	AH-18 Rescue	1945	1946	mod. AS-21 Antaeus Class
	AH-19 Mercy	1986	Active	[T8-S-100h]
AN – Net Layer
	AN-1 Monitor	-	-
	AN-5 Keokuk	-	-
	AN-6 Aloe	1944	1961	mod. YN-1 Aloe Class
	AN-38 Ailanthus	1944	1947	mod. YN-57 Ailanthus Class
	AN-78 Cohoes	1945	1968	mod. YN-97 Cohoes Class
ARC – Cable Ship
	ARC-1 Portunus			mod. LSM-1 Class
	ARC-2 Neptune	1953	1980	[S3-S2-BP1]
	ARC-2 mod. Neptune	1981	1994	mod. ARC-2 Neptune Class [S3-S2-BP1]
	ARC-3 Aeolus	1955	198x	mod. AKA-21 Artemis Class [S4-SE2-BE1]
	ARC-5 Yamacraw	1959	1965	mod. ACM-1 Chimo Class
	ARC-7 Zeus	1984	Active
	ARTB-1 Sam Rayburn			mod. SSBN-616 Lafayette Class
AW – Distilling Ship
	AW Arethusa	1898	1910
	AW Rainbow	1901	1917
	AW-1 Stag			mod. IX-111 Armadillo Class [Z-ET1-S-C3]
	AW-3 Pasig	1945	1947	mod. AO-80 Escambia Class [T2-SE-A2]