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  • The first ''Aetna'' was an 8-gun Fire Ship launched in 1691.

  • The second ''Aetna'' was an 8-gun fire ship purchased in 1739.

  • The third ''Aetna'' was an 8-gun Bomb Vessel launched in 1776.

  • The fourth ''Aetna'' was an 8-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1803. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War Of 1812 , fighting at Copenhagen , the Basque Roads , and Baltimore . She was sold in 1816.

  • The fifth ''Aetna'' , launched in 1824, was a 6-gun bomb vessel converted to a Survey Ship in 1826 and sold in 1846.

  • The sixth ''Aetna'' was a 16-gun floating battery launched in 1856 and burned in 1873.



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