List of U.S. military vessels named after living Americans
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list-of-u-s-military-vessels-named-after-living-americans-162-3726681
title:
List of U.S. military vessels named after living Americans
text:
The naming of United States Navy vessels after living people was common in the earliest years of American history, but as the 20th century began, the Navy had firmly established a practice of naming ships for people only after they had died. In 1969, a Navy panel formally decreed that warships would no longer be named after living persons. That lasted until 1974, when President Richard Nixon announced the naming of an aircraft carrier after United States Representative Carl Vinson. Over the next
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encyclopedia
description:
USN watercraft christened after people not dead by commissioning
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._military_vessels_named_after_living_Americans
date created:
2003-12-10T11:38:32Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T16:34:08Z
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13
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