USS Andrew Doria Two vessels of the United States , one in the Continental Navy and one in the United States Navy , have been named Andrew Doria , the anglicized name of Italian admiral Andrea Doria . The first Andrew Doria was a brigantine of the Continental Navy , notable as the first US ship to receive a salute from a foreign power . The second Andrew Doria ( IX-132 ) was an Italian tanker originally built in 1908 and scuttled in 1941 , then raised , renamed , and used by the Navy from 1944 to 1946 . For the merchant transatlantic ocean liner that sank in 1956 , see SS Andrea Doria . This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names . If an internal link for a specific ship referred you to this page , you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article , if one exists . Categories : Lists of ships | United States Navy ship names In other languages : Polski 