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Uss VicksburgFour ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS ''Vicksburg'', named in honor of the city Vicksburg, Mississippi, and/or the Civil War Battle of Vicksburg (1863). - The first Vicksburg, (1863), was a steamship, purchased and commissioned by the Navy in 1863, and sold in 1865.
- The second Vicksburg (PG-11) was a gunboat, commissioned in 1897, renamed Alexander Hamilton in 1922 in the Coast Guard. Around 1935, she was renamed Beta and finally placed out of service in 1944.
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