Several Navy ships named after civil rights leaders may be renamed by Pete Hegseth in his push for "reestablishing the ...

Washington — The U.S. Navy plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights ...

One vessel was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a former slave who aided the Union in the Civil War, and the other was ...

This post has been updated to amend that the future USNS Sojourner Truth (TAO-210) was not seen on a list to be renamed.

Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names ... are reflective of the commander in chief’s priorities, our ...

The U.S. Navy was formed by ... had to build or acquire new ships. Another important aspect of this naming system is the use of the prefixes USS for "United States Ship" and USNS for "United ...

List of Navy vessels to possibly be renamed includes Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman - both who have ties to historic ...

Two U.S. Navy destroyers repelled an attack by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on American ships over the weekend, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) says. "U.S. Navy destroyers USS Stockdale and the USS ...

A US Navy F/A-18 ... and videos of the ship and other Nimitz-class carriers on the Defense Department’s website show the massive vessels can take on a substantial list in a high-speed turn.

The United States says China is the biggest ... while the Chinese navy keeps growing, the number of ships in the U.S. fleet is decreasing. VOA footage by Mary Cieslak, Adam Greenbaum, Phil Datcher.