Also confusing matters is the ship renamed hornet almost immediately after the sinking.
Yeah, I was scratching my head. Don’t trust my memory much anymore, but do ssem to recall being on board a USS Hornet during a San Francisco Navy Day in 1990 or so.
Yes, but done in remembrance of her and was a Navy tradition:
USS Hornet, CV-12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)
There have been multiple ships named Enterprise, after the original sailing ship captured from the British during the American Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(1775)
All US Navy ships named Enterprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy_named_Enterprise