What do these have in Common? We name Super-Carriers after them! This tradition was broken recently with the (future) USS Enterprise - CVN-80, currently under construction. In 2021 I lofted the following thread to wild critical acclaim, about the SECOND US Super Carrier that will not be named for an old, white, dead dude. Finding Dorie.....An American Hero! | PriusChat This morning I woke up to the following news thread..... Navy discusses renaming aircraft carrier after Trump instead of heroic Black sailor SO.... This means two things to me: 1. Somebody in the Trump administration who likes the USN is playing 4D chess. (It CAN'T be Trump - he can't even play checkers!) This will probably NOT ONLY ensure future funding for the future CNV81, but the 6 that we're going to have to build behind 'Dorie.' B. GOD expresses humor through irony. Dorris (Dorie) Miller was killed in action on a USN aircraft carrier...... That carrier, the USS Liscome Bay, was renamed during its construction. It was originally intended for the British Royal Navy as HMS Ameer under Lend-Lease, but the U.S. Navy decided to keep this escort carrier. On June 28, 1943, it was officially renamed USS Liscome Bay before being commissioned in August 1943. This is NOT the first time that a ship that was re-named was lost in combat. This is NOT the first time that a Carrier that was re-named was lost in combat! OR THE SECOND TIME EITHER! Don't re-name ships! Sadly, my beloved USN has a long sad history with this. After they became viable combat ships we used to name submarines after fish and other undersea life in the USN until the 60s Admiral Hyman G. Rickover famously explained the shift away from fish names by bluntly stating, "Fish don't vote."
