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Three vessels of the United States Navy or United States Coast Guard have been named 'USS ''Onondaga''', after Onondaga Lake and Onondaga County, New York.

★ The first ''Onondaga'' was a monitor in use during the Civil War and later sold to the French Navy.

★ The second ''Onondaga'' was a Coast Guard cutter taken into Navy service in 1917 and 1918.

★ The third ''Onondaga'' was also a cutter, which was in commission in the Coast Guard from 1934 to 1947, and operated as part of the Navy from 1941 to 1945.