The Navy says it will not be naming a new class of warship after an officer who once served in the Confederate Navy. The name “USS Brooke” was included on a list of contracts awarded on a ...

The Navy is preparing to send one if its premier diving teams to Georgia to help salvage a Confederate warship from ... off Fort Jackson as a floating gun battery, was made out of railroad iron.

The Navy is unlikely to change the name of a cruiser named after a Confederate Civil War victory, a service official said Wednesday. Chancellorsville sailors are shown here manning they rails as ...

The USS Chancellorsville is now called the USS Robert Smalls, the man who stole a Confederate steamer loaded with guns and delivered it to the Union Navy, delivering himself and 16 other crew and ...

The Navy is following the Marine Corps in banning the display of Confederate symbols on its installations, including aboard warships and aircraft, the service announced on Tuesday. Chief of Naval ...

As the Pentagon looks to reexamine names honoring Civil War Confederates, a Navy guided missile cruiser ... originally named after the 1863 Confederate victory in Virginia, will now be called ...

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.