A United States Navy ship named for a Navy veteran and gay civil rights icon is going to be renamed, just as Pride month begins in America. It's the USNS Harvey Milk, a John Lewis class oiler that ...

The US Navy has officially changed the name of its ship honoring slain gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in commemoration of the WWII Medal of Honor recipient.

The US Navy on Friday renamed a ship that previously bore the name of Harvey Milk, a gay civil rights activist and icon in the LGBTQ community who was murdered in 1978. The supply ship USNS Harvey ...

(CNN) – The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history.

This can be seen in names such as the USS California (SSN-781), a Virginia-class fast attack submarine, and the USS California (BB-44), a Tennessee-class battleship that served between 1921 and 1959.