The USNS César Chavez will keep its name, honoring the labor leader’s Navy service despite wider Pentagon renaming efforts.

Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the ship's name will remain unchanged in an August memo addressed to lawmakers.

He died in 1993 at the age of 66. The USNS Cesar Chavez is a designated T-AKE 14 ship and will be the 14th of the Lewis and Clark class supply ship being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego.

The Pentagon on Sunday announced that a naval vessel named for labor leader Cesar Chavez will keep its name. Trump ...

The name of San Jose activist Cesar Chavez will stay on a U.S. Navy ship, after a local lawmaker pushed the federal ...

USNS Cesar Chavez is the fourteenth and final ship of the T-AKE class of dry cargo-ammunition ships built by General Dynamics NASSCO for the U.S. Navy. NASSCO began constructing the 689-foot-long ...

He died in 1993 at the age of 66. The USNS Cesar Chavez is a designated T-AKE 14 ship and will be the 14th of the Lewis and Clark class supply ship being built by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego.

Chavez himself served two years in the Navy from 1946 to 1948. The USNS Cesar Chavez is the 14th and final in the series of ships which were built in San Diego and named after pioneers.

A young Cesar Chavez, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, is depicted alongside his namesake Navy cargo ship, which was christened May 5 in San Diego.

INDIAN OCEAN -- The 7th Fleet supply ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14) joined an international task force led by Australian Defence Force searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 off ...

USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14) With the crack of a champagne bottle and the traditional words, "I christen you.," ...

The USS Montgomery and the USNS Cesar Chavez sailed into the South China Sea this week in support of the West Capella drill ship, according to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.