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Navy renames ship over ties to Confederate officer [USNS Maury]
Fox News ^ | March 11, 2023 1:10pm EST | Timothy H.J. Nerozzi

Posted on 03/11/2023 4:34:45 PM PST by Olog-hai

The United States Navy has announced another vessel will be renamed in order to cut association with its Confederate namesake.

The US Navy will rename the oceanographic survey ship USNS Maury, which was named after Matthew Fontaine Maury.

Maury is considered by many to be one of the foremost pioneers of oceanography in history.

He was a decorated U.S. naval officer for decades until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he refused to fight against his home state and joined the Confederacy.

The USNS Maury will be renamed in honor of Marie Tharp, a 20th century cartographer and oceanographer who first mapped the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. …

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; navy; thecabinboy; thenastylittlenipper; usnsmaury; woke
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1 posted on 03/11/2023 4:34:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Bad luck to rename ships.

Our government has gone woke. Soon to be broke.


2 posted on 03/11/2023 4:40:22 PM PST by StrictConstructionist
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To: Olog-hai

perhaps the Navy should just disregard ANYTHING associated with the Confederacy. Things like tactics, oceanography, maps, etc.


3 posted on 03/11/2023 4:40:31 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Olog-hai
One of the few things that communists are very efficient at is erasing, revising, or ignoring the history of the nation over which they rule...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

4 posted on 03/11/2023 4:43:37 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Olog-hai

Meanwhile nobody wants to join the military to serve Biden or wokeism.


5 posted on 03/11/2023 4:44:24 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: Olog-hai

Be quicker to rename it the USS Maury Povich. :)


6 posted on 03/11/2023 4:45:06 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ealgeone

Don’t tell them that the Nazi’s figured out how to pressurize aircraft using countless human subjects.

Once they figure it out they’ll ban air travel.


7 posted on 03/11/2023 4:50:05 PM PST by cyclotic
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Wonder why no one wants to join the military of a country that hates them.


8 posted on 03/11/2023 4:53:03 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: StrictConstructionist

How about if we renamed the Harvey Milk? Would that be bad luck . . . ?


9 posted on 03/11/2023 4:56:04 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ealgeone
perhaps the Navy should just disregard ANYTHING associated with the Confederacy. Things like tactics, oceanography, maps, etc.

I think I read that submarines were used by the Confederacy during the Civil War.

10 posted on 03/11/2023 4:57:09 PM PST by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: StrictConstructionist

Another kink in the armor... another small cut... but they add up. The commies know this and they never quit.


11 posted on 03/11/2023 4:58:02 PM PST by WinstonSmith1984
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To: cyclotic

Satire?


12 posted on 03/11/2023 4:58:55 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Brandonmark

The Hunley.

A tiny hand cranked death trap.

I saw it years ago undergoing cleaning in Charleston.


13 posted on 03/11/2023 5:00:32 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Olog-hai

Epstein, Weinstein and Hunter are available for use.


14 posted on 03/11/2023 5:00:40 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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15 posted on 03/11/2023 5:01:27 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Olog-hai

Dumb.

And how many taxpayer dollars will it take to do this?


16 posted on 03/11/2023 5:25:41 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Olog-hai
Maury was also a Bible Believing Christian. Which in today's depraved society would earn him an extra bad mark...

Matthew Maury

17 posted on 03/11/2023 5:38:27 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: ealgeone
I got my middle name from my Confederate Great Grandfather.   Odd that I have never thought of changing my name.
18 posted on 03/11/2023 5:39:32 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Brandonmark

That would be the CSS Hunley.


19 posted on 03/11/2023 5:41:57 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: StrictConstructionist

The Biden cultists are erasing and disrespecting history. They remind me of the Taliban who destroyed the ancient historic Buddhist statues.


20 posted on 03/11/2023 5:46:09 PM PST by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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