A Navy ship is in Mobile for maintenance only hours after receiving a new name from Pentagon officials.

The fleet replenishment oiler U.S.N.S. Harvey Milk is now the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, named for a Medal of Honor winner who died from wounds during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the new name in a video message posted on the social media site X Friday morning.

“We are taking the politics out of ship naming,” Hegseth said.

Peterson, a chief watertender, was in charge of a repair party during an air attack on the U.S.S. Neosho by the Japanese on May 7, 1942. Severely wounded and alone, Peterson closed the ship’s bulkhead stop valves, receiving additional burns which led to his death. The ship stayed operational.

According to USNI News, there are no plans to name any other ship in this class.

The name change followed a Pentagon review of names in the department, officials said.

“There was a review of all installations and assets conducted to ensure all installations and assets are reflective of the Commander in Chief’s priorities, the nation’s history and the warrior ethos,” a spokesman stated.

The ship was previously in Mobile in March for maintenance.

The ship was the Navy’s first named for an openly gay person. Milk was elected to public office as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978.

He was assassinated on Nov. 10, 1978, only 10 months after he was sworn in, by fellow City Supervisor Dan White. Milk was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 for his activism.

Milk resigned his commission and was discharged from the Navy for being gay.

Hegseth told a Senate hearing earlier this month that the Pentagon is “not interested in naming ships after activists. That’s the stance we’re taking.”

Under U.S. law, naming ships is the responsibility of the Secretary of the Navy, going back to the 19th century. Renaming ships in the U.S. fleet is rare but did happen in 2023, when former Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro renamed the U.S.S. Chancellorsville to the U.S.S. Robert Smalls, and the U.S.N.S. Maury to the U.S.N.S. Marie Tharp.