Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Absecon, after Absecon Inlet, located north of Atlantic City, New Jersey: was a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter built in 1918, which saw less than one month of non-commissioned service in October–November 1918 was a Barnegat-class seaplane tender in commission as a catapult training ship from 1943 to 1947 See also , later WHEC-374 Sources United States Navy ship names