Why is the USS Arizona assigned to a Virginia class sub?

But always in sequence. Never two ships in commission with the same name at the same time.

Brad Miller - BB-39 was decommissioned 29 DEC 1941, and stricken 1 DEC 1942.

SGM (Join to see) - Ah! I have always thought she was still carried on the commissioned list, like Constitution.

SGT (Join to see) - DDs and DEs (AKA Tin Cans) are named after people. Besides fish, subs have names of mythical sea creatures like Nautaliss. That is why I said some DA forgot how to name ships.

Ronnie. When did some DA forget how to name ships, like 120 years ago?
The first modern commissioned submarine was name after a person, USS holland. Then came maybe 20 more classes, simply named after letters.
Through from 20s through end of ww2, subs seemed to have been named primarily for fish. But since the 50s, the majority of sub classes and actual subs have been named after people or places.
The last SSN or SSBN class (with more than one boat) of submarine to be named after fish are sturgeon class (1963) and sea wolf (1989). Still then, sturgeon class had 3/37 named after people. Sea wolf class had 2/3 named for a person or place.

Simply, since 1900, The majority of subs are named after people or places. It actually sounds like some da at the navy forgot how to name subs when they started naming them after fish for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_classes_of_the_United_States_Navy

That why it confuses people. Hear of a city, one thinks, cruisers. State battle wagon, person, tin can, Battle, carrier, County, AKs, ATAs, etc, fish, sub, etc. Not sure why that confuses you. There are some USNS ships that vary from this protocol.

It doesn’t confuse me, but I’m curious as to why it confuses you.
Most submarines have been named after people or places. The overwhelming majority of them since the 1960s have been named after people or places. So unless you’re living in WW2 nostalgia, when thinking of sub names, people should be thinking ‘person or place’.

Here’s a report to Congress about naming conventions. The naming convention for subs, for some time now, has been person or place,
https://www.navycommissionings.org/ShipNaming.pdf

How this is confusing, I’m not really sure.