USS Neptune
USS Neptune has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
- USS Clyde (1863), a 294-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was briefly named Neptune when first commissioned
- USS Neptune (1863), a 1244-ton screw steamship, served during the American Civil War
- USS Manhattan (1863), a monitor in commission from 1864 to 1877, briefly named USS Neptune during 1869
- USS Neptune (AC-8), was a collier that carried the first United States troops to Europe in World War I
- USNS Neptune (ARC-2), was a Neptune-class cable repair ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1953 and scrapped in 2005
In fiction
- A fictitious U.S. Navy nuclear submarine named USS Neptune was the setting of the 1978 movie Gray Lady Down
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