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.

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.

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

The U.S. Navy is considering stripping Cesar Chavez's name from a ship. U.S. Rep. Sam Liccardo issued a letter Tuesday with other members of Congress objecting to the idea.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...