@serapheid i mean the thing about storing parts of bodies of who the ships are named after. if it's done on basically every warship, it sounds like a very important tradition that the whole military would know about. unless it's top secret for some reason.
if there's a military purpose, like they want to clone these famous officers once in a while, they would probably keep the bodies on a secure planet. or maybe they only keep a small sample on the ship for emergency cloning when the ship is away from that morgue facility.
but for cloning, i would think such an advanced people would only need the dna of these people stored on the ship as data, instead of a piece of the corpse. so then i'm assuming having a piece of the corpse maybe has a well known ritualistic or sentimental value, and wouldn't be a secret.