_in_Baltimore.jpg) Taney at Baltimore harbor in July 2011
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| 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 |
| Motto |
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| Status | Museum ship |
| Badge |   |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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) |
| Complement |
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| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 Grumman JF-2 Duck |
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| 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 [2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | 7 June 1988 |
| Designated NHL | 7 June 1988[3] |
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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[4] In 2020, Historic Ships in Baltimore and the Living Classrooms Foundation announced that they will remove the name Taney from the ship, in recognition of her namesake's historical acts of racial injustice, instead identifying her as simply WHEC-37.[6][7]
- ^ a b Program. Decommissioning Ceremony. December 7, 1986. Portsmouth, Virginia. Portsmouth: Fifth Coast Guard District. 7 December 1986. p. 10.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
- ^ "Taney, USCG". National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL). National Park Service. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: U.S.C.G.C. Taney (WHEC-37)". United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 29 January 1988. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Taney, 1936". Cutters, Craft, & U.S. Coast Guard Manned Army & Navy Vessels. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ "Commitment to Removing National Symbols of Racism and Educating Youth about our Nation's History Leads Living Classrooms Foundation to Remove Roger B. Taney's Racist Legacy from Former Coast Guard Cutter in Baltimore". livingclassrooms.org (Press release). Living Classrooms. 1 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Miller, Hallie (2 July 2020). "Roger B. Taney's name removed from historic Pearl Harbor ship in Baltimore". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 3 July 2020.