Well, really only one ship it seems. USS Chancellorsville, a guided missile cruiser.
Although it is traditionally bad luck to rename a ship, this is certainly called for. This one seems to be fated to become the USS Planter, a fine name, or perhaps the USS Robert Smalls, unusual for a cruiser.
The story of Smalls is well worth your time.
(My, that is a poorly-worded title as it seems to say both what it ought to say as well as its exact opposite.)
Gyrate
February 28, 2023, 10:31am
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I agree that renaming a ship with a Confederate association to the USS Robert Smalls would be fitting indeed, particularly given his appropriation of a Confederate warship to the benefit of the Union side.
Monty
February 28, 2023, 11:13am
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You could ask a mod to change the title to Ships with Confederate names to be renamed .
LSLGuy
February 28, 2023, 2:12pm
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The word “planter” being a synonym for “Southern US antebellum plantation owner” seems to make that choice of replacement name rather like the OP’s title. Namely that it’s able to be spun by both sides as a victory.
Great idea, and I always liked Smalls’s audacity since I first read about it many years ago.
And yet it’s happened a lot in US Navy history, back to the earliest days. Just a few examples:
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