{{Italic title prefixed|3}} Three ships in the United States Navy have been named '''USS ''Lafayette''''' for Marquis de Lafayette.
*{{USS|Lafayette|1848}}, was built in 1848 as ''Aleck Scott'', and purchased by the US Navy on 18 May 1862 and renamed ''Lafayette'' on 8 September 1862. She was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold *{{USS|Lafayette|AP-53}}, was launched as the French-built ''Normandie'' and seized from France in 1941. She was partially destroyed by fire during conversion to a troop ship in New York. She was sold to a US scrap merchant and then struck in 1945 *{{USS|Lafayette|SSBN-616}}, was the lead ship of the {{sclass|Lafayette|submarine}}s, commissioned in 1963, and decommissioned in 1991 *{{USS|Lafayette|FFG-65}}, a planned Constellation-class frigate
{{Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette}} {{Ship index}}
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