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Only the 1st One?[edit]

Is the phrase "...first ship of the United States Navy named in honor of ..." some kind of formal U.S. naval code language - I have seen it before and it does not seem very encyclopedic. A casual observer with NPOV may infer that if you are calling out the 1st then there is also a known 2nd or 3rd ship also named. "...And the first shall be last." 144.183.224.2 (talk) 01:42, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not exactly sure what your point is, if any, but this is common in discussing naming of USN vessels and pretty obvious to most people. It simply means that the ship in question is the first ship to be named in honor of the person, city, or whatever it is being named after. The USN, like other navies, reuses names, so someday there may be a second ship so named and it will be described as the the "second ship..." Of course to avoid confusion, navies will not reuse the name until the earlier ship has been retired or is renamed something else - the latter has happened before in the case of the USN at least, e.g., armored cruiser Tennessee was renamed Memphis so a new battelship could be christened Tennessee. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.90 (talk) 14:32, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

COI[edit]

LPD 26 Public Affairs Office would seem to have a possible conflict of interest on this article, which should be disclosed by that user. That user's edits to date are not inconsistent with proper COI editing, in my view, but there should still be disclosure. DES ^(talk) 16:54, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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