The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century.

Rear Adm. Adan Cruz was relieved by Rear Adm. Whalen during a ceremony aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the group's flagship.

A San Diego-based submarine has received a unique Navy honor ... and Wahoo’s crew sank three more enemy ships. O’Kane went on to command USS Tang (SS 306), a legendary WW II submarine.