There are only two active navy ships that have names that are even remotely connected to the Confederacy.
The USNS Maury and USS Chancellorsville and the later is named for a battle, just like the rest of the Mark-41 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers.
I suppose that they want to scrap the ships named to honor Indian tribes, because that is “WASIS” for “reasons.”
Well, the Battle of Chancellorsville was a Confederate victory, so I guess some people have a problem with that ship name.
The other ship mentioned in the article was the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis,who was a segregationist. I have to say, I don’t understand how he got a carrier named after him. Since the 1970s they named carriers after Presidents or Navy heroes. Stennis was neither of those.
Mathew Fontaine Maury: A Naval officer and pioneer in the emerging field of oceanography, Matthew Fontaine Maury was nicknamed the “Pathfinder of the Seas.” Maury gave crucial support to Cyrus Field and the idea of a transatlantic cable by showing Field the route that a cable could take across the ocean.