[PDF] Coast Guard Cutter Taney eBook

Author : Bob Ketenheim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1467127744

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Commissioned in 1936, The Taney was one of seven Secretary-class cutters built for the US Coast Guard during the Great Depression. She served continuously for 50 years, including service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The Taney was in Honolulu during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and participated in the defense of Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. During World War II, she saw service in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. The Taney spent several years on ocean weather station duty in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Later, she patrolled the East Coast of the United States, performing drug interdiction duties. The Taney is the only surviving ship that was present during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She was decommissioned in 1986 and has since been a museum ship in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where she hosts an annual Pearl Harbor commemoration on December 7.

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230653334

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Hamilton class cutters, Treasury class cutters, USCGC Taney, USCGC Campbell, USCGC Dallas, Owasco class cutter, USCGC Chase, USCGC Munro, USCG Treasury-class cutter, USCGC Ingham, USCGC Alexander Hamilton, USCGC Hamilton, USCGC Duane, USCGC Morgenthau, USCGC Spencer, USCGC Midgett, High endurance cutter, USCGC Bibb, USCGC Mellon, USCGC Sherman, USCGC Jarvis, USCGC Gallatin, USCGC Rush, USCGC Boutwell. Excerpt: USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) (pronounced -nee) is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last ship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although she was actually moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself. She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), who was at various times: US Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She is also one of two Treasury-class (out of seven total) Coast Guard Cutters still afloat. Serving her country for 50 years, the Taney saw action in both theaters of combat in World War II, serving as command ship at the Battle of Okinawa, and as part of fleet escort in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. She also served in the Vietnam War in Operation Market Time. Taney also patrolled the seas working in drug interdiction and fisheries protection and participated in the search for Amelia Earhart. Roger B. Taney, Coast Guard Builders No. 68, was laid on May 1, 1935 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She was launched on June 3, 1936 and was sponsored by Miss Corinne F. Taney. She was commissioned at Philadelphia on October 24, 1936 under the command of CDR W. K. Thompson, USCG. The Roger B. Taney departed Philadelphia on December 19, transited the Panama Canal from December 27 to 29, and arrived at her home port, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on January 18, 1937. She conducted local operations out...

Author : Michael G. Walling
Publisher : Cutter Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0578012901

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Through eyewitness accounts based on hundreds of interviews with crew members; personal diaries, notes, and letters; and each cutter's logbooks and patrol reports Walling plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Told largely in the voices of the men who lived it, this unforgettable tale is peppered with humorous and ironic anecdotes about life aboard ship during wartime. You'll meet the liberty-craving crew members who painted their entire ship in less than an hour; the ship's mascot who became canine-non-grata in Greenland; and the crew whose vessel was mistaken for the German battleship Bismarck and attacked by the Royal Navy. Complete with dramatic photographs of the Coast Guard in action, Bloodstained Sea brings this epic drama to vibrant and pulsing life.