Posted on 06/03/2025 1:11:17 PM PDT by Drew68
A guided-missile cruiser that was named after a Confederate Civil War victory will be renamed in honor of a former slave who stole a Confederate States Navy ship in South Carolina and delivered it to the Union, the Navy announced in a late Monday statement.
USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) will be renamed after Robert Smalls, a former slave who was conscripted into Confederate service in 1862. The skilled navigator stole the steamer CSS Planter and escaped from Charleston on May 13, 1862, with his family, rescuing enslaved people and capturing military material. He turned the ship over to the U.S. Navy.
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Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship
They're accusing Hegesth of violating longstanding Navy tradition by renaming a ship, angering King Neptune, and bringing a curse up her crew.
Remember, it's been done before.
Remember, it’s been done before.
Drachinfel to the rescue. (Notice the publication Date)
https://youtu.be/tp6W0DvSHMY?si=DT1oog7xh9-H-vJP
I don't know where people get the idea that it's something that never happens.
Maybe we should capture the Harvey Milk so we could rename it. LOL Like the Americans during the Revolution renaming the captured HMS George to the USS Enterprise. Or during the First Barbary War, the Americans captured the Mastico and renamed it the USS Intrepid.
I’m not a fan of most of this renaming stuff...but why in the hell would be name a ship after a U.S. battlefield defeat in the first place? I’m fine with the statues, etc., but battles that were lost just seems weird.
Point is, libtards all over social media are currently crying how Hegseth is violating a longstanding Navy tradition by renaming a ship when they themselves were doing it barely two years ago, and should be reminded as such.
It’s a crime that there hasn’t been a destroyer named after Ernest E. Evans for the last half-century. Seems they’re going to name a new Arleigh Burke after him, so that’s been a long time coming.
Change it back and change back every military base in the South that was changed by Biden.
The former slave, was a really heroic guy. Made a Union Captain in Civil War, elected to Congress after war even helped his former master and wife after the war. His story should be made into a movie. One cool dude with no hate in his Christian heart.
Because the South is a significant part of the country too and part of the reconciliation between the regions was honoring the South's victories and leaders too. Because the Left has a blinding hatred of the South, they've been engaged in a years-long holy crusade to try to obliterate the South's history. Thus they tore down statues, wanted to rename bases and ships etc etc. They became extremely bitter when the South went Republican.
The sooner the better.
Renaming a ship is very bad luck, akin to turning hatch covers over. Ship will now be jinxed.
Sounds like he really deserved that honor. Stories like this could do more to unite this country than all the political bullcrap we hear coming out of DC these days.
The USS Lexington was named for (arguably) a defeat, as was the USS Bunker Hill, and although it wasn't named for a battle, the USS Valley Forge commemorates the aftermath of a series of defeats. The novelist James Michener noted the curious American obsession with military defeats (think Pearl Harbor Day and "remember the Alamo"), so in his novel The Bridges of Toko-Ri, he named a fictional warship the USS Savo after a 1942 naval defeat.
Although both of those battles also have some very positive aspects associated with them. Lexington is arguably where the Revolution actually began, and Bunker Hill (actually Breeds Hill) was a tactical defeat but arguably a strategic victory that cost the British much more than the Continentals.
Chancellorsville was just a complete butt-whupping with no silver lining except the Rebs shooting Stonewall themselves.
We killed more British officers at Breeds (Bunker) hills than any other battle.
The only reason the clerks, farmers, shop owners retreated was that they ran out of ball and powder.
If Robert Smalls deserves to have a ship named after him, why not a new ship? It infuriates me that cancel culture persists under Pete Hegseth, a man I admire, and that the war on our country’s Southern heritage continues.
Yeah man! I was there, private soldier Joseph Biden with my uncle, General Bosie, 1st Delaware militia.
I suggested we powder an alligator’s behind and send those krauts running, but Unk reminded me, “Hey jack! There aren’t any gators in North Dakota.”
Pete Hegseth is not renaming a ship after Robert Smalls.
This was done during the Biden Administration.
It is the USNS Harvey Milk, named after a gay pedophile, that Hegseth is looking to rename.
Maybe. But this isn’t a hill to die on. It would have best been left alone.
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