USS North Dakota (BB-29) was a dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, the second member of the Delaware class, her only sister ship being USS Delaware. North Dakota was laid down at the Fore River Shipyard in December 1907, was launched in November 1909, and commissioned into the US Navy in April 1910. She was armed with a main battery of ten 12-inch (300 mm) guns and was capable of a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). North Dakota was the first vessel of the US Navy to be named after the 39th state.

North Dakota had a peaceful career; she was present during the United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914, but did not see action. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, North Dakota remained in the US, training crewmen for the rapidly expanding wartime Navy, and therefore did not see combat. She remained on active duty through the early 1920s, until she was decommissioned under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty in November 1923, and subsequently converted into a radio-controlled target ship. She served in that capacity until 1930, when she was replaced in that role by USS Utah. In 1931, she was sold for scrapping and thereafter dismantled.

North Dakota (SSN-784) will be a Virginia-class submarine. She will be the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of North Dakota. The contract to build her was awarded to Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Groton, Connecticut on 14 August 2003. This ship is the first of the Block III subs which will feature a revised bow, including some technology from Ohio-class submarine cruise missile submarines.^[3]

Her name was announced on 15 July 2008.^[4] and her keel was laid down on 11 May 2012.^[5] She was floated on 15 September 2013 and was christened on 2 November 2013, sponsored by Katie Fowler, wife of Vice Admiral Jeff Fowler.^[6]