new slogan: America's Navy: You Have to Force Your Wood
Posted on 04/23/2013 12:01:44 PM PDT by Saint X
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.S. Navy had no formal procedure for naming ships. It wasn’t until 1819 that Congress passed an act stating “all of the ships, of the Navy of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy.” The secretary has fulfilled this role ever since, even though the passage expressly assigning authority for designating ship names was omitted when the U.S. Code was revised in 1925.
In addition to recommendations from Congress and the president, the secretary traditionally has been guided by a rather loose set of naming conventions—cruisers were to be named for battles, attack submarines for U.S. cities, destroyers for Navy and Marine heroes, and so forth. Controversy has erupted whenever the choice of a name strayed too far from those conventions, was seemingly swayed by politics, or deemed inappropriate for various reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
You know the day is coming when they will have the USS Harvey Milk.
Expect a future submarine to be named the USS Fairy Boat.
I wouldn’t mind a ship named after me!
What the heck did gabby do to merit this honor?
Nothing.
That's the ugliest damn thing I've ever seen afloat!
Looks more like a Jules Verne creation...
Forget to duck...
new slogan: America's Navy: You Have to Force Your Wood
But wait, no..that won't work, because pretty soon we won't even have a 50 ship navy
at least milk served. i would find it difficult to be proud of serving on a ship named after some of these people. it would be like naming my battalion the jane fonda AA bn. naming ships after living people, even medal of honor recipients, is just wrong. they could name garbage scows after congress creatures.
USNI actually gets it wrong. It used to be States for Battleships, cities for Cruisers, fish/marine life for subs and battles/notable former ships for carriers (inherited from the post WWI Battlecruisers that were never built, two of which became the Navy’s first real carriers)
There were some exceptions. An early predreadnought battleship named Kearsarge. The prototype carrier being named after Dr Langley. But they were rare exceptions to the rule.
SPIT!
IMHO the worst President of the 20th Century (and yes that includes WW and FDR, he was THAT bad)
Having Zummwalt Class Named after him though is to be expected. Everything that is wrong withe the current disasters of the Freedom Class Ships will be 10 fold with Zummwalts.
Expensive, Overpriced, Under gunned and too vulnerable.
I trust everyone here knows what Destroyer means, Torpedo boat Destroyer They were designed to take on fast light ships.
Now these ships are too large and an EXTREMELY vulnerable to the very craft they are built to guard against. (U.S.S. Cole example #1)
The fact that it changed from this is completely absurd. Ego in politics as always ruins everything it touches.
SHIPS NAMED “KEARSARGE” AND THE MOUNTAIN FOR WHICH THEY WERE NAMED.
http://www.warner.nh.us/ships.htm
4 US Navy ships with that name.
Naming conventiones have changed with era and class. There are no more battleships. Currently, Virginia-class attack subs are named for states. Los Angeles-class are named for U.S. cities.
The USS Obama? I cannot wait to see it...
Four ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Worden for John Lorimer Worden.
The first Worden (DD-16) was a Truxton class destroyer, commissioned in 1903 and decommissioned in 1919.
The second Worden (DD-288) was a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and decommissioned in 1930.
The third Worden (DD-352) was a Farragut-class destroyer, commissioned in 1935 and wrecked in 1943.
The fourth Worden (CG-18) was a Leahy-class cruiser, commissioned in 1963 and decommissioned in 1993.
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