 On 17 February 1973, days before Hudner's retirement, the Navy commissioned the , the third U.S. ship to be named in honor of an African American.Present at the commissioning ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, were Daisy Brown Thorne, who had remarried, her daughter Pamela Brown, and Hudner, who gave a dedication.The ship was decommissioned on 27 July 1994 and sold to Egypt.