Today's "destroyers" such the DDG class are nearly as large as the Battleships of the early 20th Century. Although the absence of armor has reduced displacement by a factor of four, a modern "destroyer" is only a few dozen feet shorter than what passed for a capital ship for much of the 20th Century, and modern ships surely make up in firepower, speed, and sensor capabilities what they may lack in raw tonnage.
Hence names that may have sufficed for ships of a particular class decades ago may no longer do justice to the magnificence of their current counterparts. While the Navy has attempted to be systematic in naming its ships, in recent years it seems there has been a complete breakdown in any attempt to sustain a systematic practice in the name categories for ship types. One of the chief benefits of the classical naming system that flourished during the Second World War was the precision with which the name of a ship defined the ship's class, no small matter with a Navy boasting thousands of ships.
The elegance of the system in which battleships were named for states, battle-cruisers for territories, large cruisers for large cities and light cruisers for small cities is difficult to exceed. A Report on Policies and Practices of the U. Ships named for U. Navy Ships Honoring Women. Ships named for African Americans.
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The conference report H. The text of the executive summary is as follows:. This report is submitted in accordance with Section of P. Includes a description of the current policies and practices of the Navy for naming vessels of the Navy, and a description of the extent to which theses policies and practices vary from historical policies and practices of the Navy for naming vessels of the Navy, and an explanation for such variances;. Assesses the feasibility and advisability of establishing fixed policies for the naming of one or more classes of vessels of the Navy, and a statement of the policies recommended to apply to each class of vessels recommended to be covered by such fixed policies if the establishment of such fixed policies is considered feasible and advisable; and.
Identifies any other matter relating to the policies and practices of the Navy for naming vessels of the Navy that the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. Current ship naming policies and practices fall well within the historic spectrum of policies and practices for naming vessels of the Navy, and are altogether consistent with ship naming customs and traditions.
The establishment of fixed policies for the naming of one or more classes of vessels of the Navy would be highly inadvisable. There is no objective evidence to suggest that fixed policies would improve Navy ship naming policies and practices, which have worked well for over two centuries.
In addition, the Department of the Navy used to routinely publish lists of current type naming conventions for battle force ships, and update it as changes were made to them. At some point, this practice fell into disuse, leading to a general lack of knowledge about naming conventions. To remedy this problem, the Naval History and Heritage Command will once again develop and publish a list of current type naming conventions to help all Americans better understand why Secretaries of the Navy choose the ship names they do.
This list will be updated as required. Section of Division C states:. It is the Sense of the Senate that the next available capital warship of the U. Navy be named the USS Ted Stevens to recognize the public service achievements, military service sacrifice, and undaunted heroism and courage of the long-serving United States Senator for Alaska. This resolution, introduced on June 23, , expresses the sense of the House that the Secretary of the Navy should name an appropriate Navy ship in honor of Marine Corps General Clifton B.
Cates of Tiptonville, TN. The text of the resolution as introduced is as follows:. Cates of Tiptonville, Tennessee. Whereas Clifton B. Whereas during that fight, then-Lieutenant Cates was wounded during a severe gas attack but refused to be evacuated with his company in order to remain with and assist another company;. Cates was one of the few officers of any branch of the United States Armed Forces to command, under fire, a platoon, a company, a battalion, a regiment, and a division;.
Cates was advanced to the rank of General in and was named the 19th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps;. Cates served his country as a United States Marine for 37 years through 3 wars; and. Cates: Now, therefore, be it. Section of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:. Section of the conference report H. The Senate amendment contained a provision sec.
Pages Section of H. For further action on H. The text of S. In the conference report H. Ypsilanti, in honor of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Whereas the Navy proposes the procurement of 55 Littoral Combats Ships;. Whereas the Navy has stated it will name Littoral Combats Ships for small towns and communities and mid-size cities;. Whereas the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, with a combined population of 74,, is a small city that satisfies the criteria for naming Littoral Combats Ships;.
Whereas the Littoral Combats Ships are designed to operate in littoral, or close-to-shore environments, and a Navy vessel the bearing the name U. Ypsilanti would help convey the American ideals of freedom and democracy to nations struggling to achieve democracy: Now, therefore, be it. Sergeant Peralta, who grew up in Southeast San Diego, was nominated for the Medal of Honor for smothering a grenade with his body during combat in Fallujah, Iraq.
He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross instead. A team of specialists, which included pathologists and other experts, conducted an investigation at the direction of the Secretary of Defense and determined that Peralta did not consciously pull the grenade into his body.
This conclusion contradicts the eye-witness accounts of the Marines fighting alongside Peralta, as well as the recommendation put forward by Marine Corps leadership. There have been 11 instances, going back to , where Congress has included in legislation that was signed into law how a Navy ship should be named. The Legislative Information System suggests that the House did not consider this amendment as part of its consideration of H.
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Author Name. Place of Event. Recipient Name. Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Ellen Ioanes. The Secretary of the Navy is charged with naming new US Navy ships, but there are rules to how those ships are named.
The Navy sometimes breaks the naming rules, which is itself a tradition, a new report from the Congressional Research Service says. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines will replace the Ohio-class, starting to patrol in The first submarine has been named Columbia for the District of Columbia, but the Navy hasn't publicly stated what the rule for naming this submarine class will be.
The Navy doesn't seem to have a rule for naming Seawolf-class attack submarines. The three submarines of this class still in service are the Seawolf, the Connecticut, and the Jimmy Carter — named for a fish, a state, and a president. Virginia-class attack subs are supposed to be named for states, and all of them are — with the exception of the USS John Warner, a former Republican senator, a Marine, and Secretary of the Navy from to Aircraft carriers are supposed to be named for US presidents.
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