USS Franklin may refer to:
, a 6-gun schooner, fitted out in 1775 and returned to the owner in 1776 , an 8-gun brig built in 1795, captured by corsairs from Tripoli in 1802, bought back by the United States Navy in 1805, and sold in 1807 , a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1815 and broken up in 1852 , a screw frigate launched in 1864 and in active service until 1877, thereafter used as a receiving ship until 1915 , an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944 and crippled by bombs in March 1945, later repaired but remaining in reserve until stricken in 1964
See also PS Benjamin Franklin , a ballistic missile submarine; , a U.S. Navy shipname referring to Benjamin Franklin; , an aircraft carrier; , a U.S. Coast Guard Point-class cutter; , a British Royal Navy third-rate originally built in France as Franklin, before being captured at the Battle of the Nile and renamed; Franklin (disambiguation)