U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Damany S. Coleman/Released 101120-M-3762C-010.jpg
Nov 20, 2010
Sailors stand at ease on the aft gangplank of a Navy missile – guided destroyer, the USS Gravely, during her commissioning ceremony at the State Ports in Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 20. The destroyer was named after the late pioneer Vice Adm. Samuel Lee Gravely Jr., who was the first African-American in the U.S. Navy to be commissioned, first to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, become a fleet commander and a flag officer.
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