Has the Navy ever renamed a ship?
Is it rare for a ship to be named after a CPO (I would expect Captain, Commander, Admiral)?
Wasn’t Oliver Hazard Perry a Commodore? Does that rank not exist any more?
I don't know how often that has happened, but there was this name swap:
USS Hancock (CV-19)
The ship was laid down as Ticonderoga on 26 January 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts and subsequently renamed Hancock on 1 May 1943. This renaming was done in response to an offer from the John Hancock Life Insurance Company to conduct a special bond drive to raise money for the ship if that name was used. (The shipyard at Quincy was in the company's home state.) CV-14, originally laid down as Hancock and under construction at the same time in Newport News, Virginia, took the name Ticonderoga instead.
....sadly, YES.....and recently, too....the sordid case of
the U.S.S. Chancellorsville.....renamed because too many snowflakes got their panties in a twist because the ship was originally named for a Civil War battle .......
Wasn’t Oliver Hazard Perry a Commodore? Does that rank not exist any more?
Only during wartime, I believe.
It’s Rear Admiral, Lower Half - one star. Rear Admiral, Upper Half is a two star.