USS Port Royal

Two United States Navy ships have been named Port Royal, after Port Royal Sound[?] in South Carolina, site of battles in both the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

• The first Port Royal[?] was a sidewheel steamer gunboat[?] commissioned in 1862, active in the Civil War, and decommissioned 1866.

• The second Port Royal (CG-73) is a guided missile cruiser[?] commissioned in 1994, the last US cruiser built in the 20th century.