On 17 February 1973, days before Hudner's retirement, the Navy commissioned the Template:Sclass- USS Jesse L. Brown, the third U.S. ship to be named in honor of an African American.[43] 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.[16] The ship was decommissioned on 27 July 1994 and sold to Egypt.[35][44]