The guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville will soon be renamed as part of a broader effort to rename military assets named in honor of the Confederacy. The Japan-based ship is shown here transiting ...

The cruiser Chancellorsville, forward-deployed to U.S. 7th Fleet, transits the Taiwan Strait near Chinese navy ships Aug. 28. (MC2 Justin Stack/Navy) An independent commission tasked with compiling a ...

The Navy announced Wednesday that the oceanographic survey ship USNS Maury would be renamed in honor of Marie Tharp, a survey pioneer. The ship had previously been named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, ...

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The U.S. Navy has finally shed the last two ship names that honored the Confederacy — and renamed one of them in honor of a man whose life story reads like an action movie hero. The USS ...

One night in 1862, as the Civil War raged, an enslaved mariner named Robert Smalls seized an opportunity. When the enlisted crew of a Confederate steamer disembarked for a night of carousing in ...

Confederate Navy Adm. Raphael Semmes was known for commanding the Confederate raider CSS Alabama during the Civil War. He was memorialized in 1900 with a statue that long stood in downtown Mobile. He ...