Vacation Part 5: U.K. James and U.S.S. Taney - Pearl Harbor Survivor

Welcome to the USCGC Taney

This is part 5 of our regional travel - and this blog will take you into the USCGC Taney - a ship that survived the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. 
 

Rob and James inside the USCGC Taney

The USCGC Taney docked at Baltimore's Inner Harbor

WHAT IS THE USCGC TANEY? - The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) TANEY is one of the famed Secretary/Treasury Class Coast Guard cutters built in the mid 1930s and which saw extensive service in war and peace for half a century. Commissioned on 24 October 1936, TANEY was first home ported in Honolulu, Hawaii, where, until the outbreak of World War II, she interdicted opium smugglers and carried out search and rescue duties from the Hawaiian Islands through the central Pacific Ocean.  

WHERE WAS THE TANEY AT PEARL HARBOR? - According to Historicships.org: On the eve of Pearl Harbor, Taney was assigned to the U.S. Navy's Destroyer Division 80, though she retained her Coast Guard crew. When Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor and other American military installations in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, Taney was tied up at Pier 6, Honolulu, where she was able to repeatedly engage Japanese planes which over flew the city. When the attack subsided, Taney immediately commenced anti-submarine patrol duties off Pearl Harbor.

THE HISTORY OF THE ATTACK AT PEARL HARBOR

Photo of of the Taney at the Pearl Harbor Attack

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 NEXT: SOOGIE THE TANEY'S MASCOT AND A TOUR THROUGH THE SHIP 

MY SHORT VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qMlm9ctZw