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The ship was christened by Drew’s eldest daughter, Bebe Drew Price, who broke a bottle of champagne against the bow under rainy skies before more than 1,300 people. The Charles Drew is so large that there are generally only two days a month when the tide is high enough for the Navy to safely slide a ship into San Diego Bay, Johnson said.
 
He said that the ship will return to the NASSCO shipyard to be completed and for testing, including sea trials. About 1,000 people have worked on building the ship at any one time, Johnson said. When it is finally complete, the ship will be crewed by about 135 people, he added. Two helicopters can land on the Charles Drew.

Drew Ivie said she was looking forward to keeping in touch with the ship’s crew, a tradition for family of people who have ships named after them. She said she sensed “tremendous pride” in the men and women who have been working on completing the ship.
 
“We will stay in touch with the crew,” Drew Ivie said. “We can go aboard the ship and go out with the ship for short stints. I can send cookies to the officers or the people in the mess hall. We can have a living relationship with the crew. It’s very inspiring.”
 
Drew Ivie, a top aide for L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, said she was only 6 years old when her father died in 1950. But she remembered how tender he was to his four children, and the way he would take them in the family’s 1949 Packard to Rock Creek Park, where he would pretend that the car was stalled in a stream.

“We screamed. No matter how many times he did it, we always loved it,” she said. "We knew we were safe, but we pretended we were lost at sea.”

Her father was the director of the first American Red Cross effort to collect and bank blood on a large scale, but he nevertheless encountered racial discrimination. When the military issued an order to the Red Cross during World War II that blood be “typed” according to the race of the donor, Drew was outraged. And despite his contributions to blood plasma research, he was denied membership in the American College of Surgeons.
 
“He would have been just thrilled,” Drew Ivie said of the naming of a ship after her father. “It’s extremely gratifying, and it will be a beacon to people of all races and ethnicities that their contributions are appreciated. That we are appreciated.”
 

-- Hector Becerra

Photo: The Charles Drew. Credit: U.S. Navy.