The Navy announced Wednesday that it was renaming an oceanographic survey ship formerly named after a Confederate navy member. Going forward, the survey ship once known as USNS Maury will be renamed ...

The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history. The former USNS Maury, an oceanographic survey ship, has been re-named in honor of Marie ...

The vessels will be named for Robert Smalls, a mariner who commandeered a Confederate ship to freedom from slavery, and Marie Tharp, an ocean geologist who studied continental drift. By Emily Schmall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Navy is changing the name of a warship to honor a former slave who escaped to freedom on a stolen Confederate ship A US ...

The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero. The USS ...

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.

The guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville will soon be renamed as part of a broader effort to rename military assets named in honor of the Confederacy. The Japan-based ship is shown here transiting ...

The Navy announced Wednesday that the oceanographic survey ship USNS Maury would be renamed in honor of Marie Tharp, a survey pioneer. The ship had previously been named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, ...