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

The ship, which was launched in 2012, was named for Cesar Chavez, a Navy veteran from San Jose who in the 1960s organized the labor union United Farm Workers. Chavez went on to become one of the ...

The name of San Jose activist Cesar Chavez will stay on a U.S. Navy ship, after a local lawmaker pushed the federal government to continue honoring his name and legacy.

USNS Cesar Chavez is the final ship of a class of 14 T-AKE dry cargo-ammunition ships for the Navy. NASSCO began constructing the 689-foot-long ship in October 2010.

SAN DIEGO, May 9 (UPI) -- The last T-AKE class dry cargo-ammunition ship built by General Dynamics NASSCO for the U.S. Navy has been launched. A ceremony for the launch of the USNS Cesar Chavez ...

See About archive blog posts. The Senate wants the Navy to explain how it selects names for new ships in the wake of controversy over the naming of a ship in memory of labor leader Cesar Chavez.

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) and the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14) conducted presence operations in international waters ...

The ship, which was launched in 2012, was named for Cesar Chavez, a Navy veteran from San Jose who in the 1960s organized the labor union United Farm Workers. Chavez went on to become one of the ...