That would have been USS Bonhomme Richard (CV-31), an Essex class carrier commissioned in WWII. This is USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), a WASP class amphibious assault ship. Both named of course after John Paul Jones’ ship.
Sorry for the confusion. The name of the ship just brought back many memories.
There’s one in between-—a boomer-—nuke sub. Bon Homme Richard is the French nick name for Ben Franklin. I expect there will always be a Bon Homme Richard in the US Navy so it’s necessary to keep track.
That would have been USS Bonhomme Richard (CV-31),
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We used to ‘call’ her “Bonnie Dick”, the USS Kearsarge (CVS33) was the “Queer Barge”
That was before the word Gay means what it means today
There was a DD named Brinkley Bass (DD887) and one night someone painted over the two B’s...
Of course the ‘other’ name was supposedly reserved for use by the crew members and they could very quickly turn into ‘fighting words’...
Louis XIV purchased the French East Indiaman Duc de Duras, and placed her under the command of John Paul Jones. Jones renamed her Bon Homme Richard - usually rendered in more correct French as Bonhomme Richard, to honor Benjamin Franklin, the American Commissioner at Paris whose Poor Richard's Almanac was published in France under the title of Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard.