Talk:Samuel B. Roberts/@comment-32181426-20180424142239/@comment-26137911-20180425062037

> It's also worth noting that just about every current ship (in the USN) that is named after a person, is named after a man as well.

Just as trivia, there was precisely one WW2 destroyer named after a woman -- Gearing-class USS Higbee. The second Higbee is a planned Flight IIA Arleigh Burke that only got laid down last November