USCGC Taney
Taney at Baltimore harbor in July 2011 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Roger B. Taney |
| Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 1 May 1935 |
| Launched | 3 June 1936 |
| Commissioned | 24 October 1936 |
| Decommissioned | 7 December 1986 |
| Identification | Call sign: NRDT |
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| Status | Museum ship |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Treasury-class cutter |
| Displacement | 2,216 long tons (2,252 t; 2,482 short tons) |
| Length | 327 ft (99.67 m)o/a |
| Beam | 41 ft (12.50 m) |
| Draft | 12.5 ft (3.81 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) |
| Range | 12,300 nautical miles (22,780 km) at 11 knots (20.4 km/h) |
| Capacity | 135,180 US gallons (511,712 L) |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 Grumman JF-2 Duck |
| Location | 1101 Key Hwy., Baltimore, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°17′09″N 76°36′23″W / 39.28583°N 76.60639°W |
| Built | 1936 |
| Architect | U.S. Coast Guard; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Architectural style | Treasury class cutter |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001826 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 7 June 1988 |
| Designated NHL | 7 June 1988 |
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WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37, launched as USCGC Roger B. Taney and for most of her career called USCGC Taney (/ˈtɔːni/), is a United States Coast Guard high endurance cutter notable as the last warship floating which fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who served as U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the United States.
She is also one of two Treasury-class (out of seven total) Coast Guard cutters still afloat. Active for 50 years, Taney saw action in both theaters of combat in World War II, serving as a command ship at the Battle of Okinawa, and as a fleet escort in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She also served in the Vietnam War, taking part in Operation Market Time. Taney was also used in drug interdiction and fisheries protection work.
She was decommissioned in 1986, and has since served as a museum ship in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Maryland. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1988. In 2020, Historic Ships in Baltimore and the Living Classrooms Foundation removed the name Taney from the ship, in recognition of her namesake's historical acts of racial injustice, instead identifying her as simply WHEC-37.