The U.S. Navy’s system of naming ships is in disarray. The process for carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and amphibious ships was upended with little consistency many years ago. The Navy has ...

Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. Attack submarines, for example, were once named for fish, then later for cities, and most recently (in ...

Congress is taking aim at the Navy tradition of selecting untraditional names for its new ships and submarines. A report by the Congressional Research Service, a public policy research institute for ...