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Home Front: Culture Wars

US Navy to Name Ship After Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

2016-07-28

[USNI News] The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.

The July 14, 2016 notification, signed by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, indicated he intended to name a planned Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206). The ship would be the second of the John Lewis-class oilers being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, Calif.

The Secretary of the Navy’s office is deferring additional information until the naming announcement, a Navy official told USNI News on Thursday.

Mabus has said the John Lewis-class ‐ named after civil rights activist and congressman Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) -would be named after civil rights leaders.

Other names in the class include former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren whose court ruled to desegregate U.S. schools, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, women's right activist Lucy Stone and abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.

Posted by:Besoeker

#9 Not the first time Milk was full of seamen.

Snark o' the day.

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2016-07-28 21:19

#8 ...Actually, T-AO-206 will not be a commissioned vessel of the US Navy. She will be a US Naval Ship - there's a difference, though not one most civilians will appreciate. A USNS is a ship owned by the Department of the Navy but run by a mostly civilian crew - I'll feel sorry for the handful of regular Navy or reservists who will be aboard her, but at the end of the day it's an empty gesture.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2016-07-28 21:04

#7 Many things come to mind and none of them subtle enough. I'll just abide.

Posted by: Jaimble Wittlesbach5825 2016-07-28 19:39

#6 Former USN officer having appeal to a growing constituency. Meh.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-07-28 19:01

#5 With a little effort, I'm sure some of the strange minds at Rantburg can come up with nickname for the ship based on the fact that the only thing Milk accomplished during his tenure was known as "The pooper-scooper Law"

Posted by: Lemuel Chusoper9489 2016-07-28 18:55

#4 I remember a hilarious Clive Cussler parody I read some years ago where some of the action took place aboard the USS Alice B. Toklas...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-07-28 17:58

#3 The good ship lolly pop?

Posted by: AlanC 2016-07-28 16:46

#2 "I served on the Milk"
Na, just doesn't have the ring.

Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-28 16:41

#1 A 'Fleet Oiler' seems appropriate.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-07-28 16:39

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