USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on May 1st, 1935 and commissioned into US Coast Guard service as the USCGC Roger B. Taney on October 24th, 1936, the Taney is a Secretary Class High Endurance Cutter which served the US Coast Guard for over 50 years.
Over her distinguished career, Taney received three battle stars and numerous theatre ribbons for her World War II service while serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific, and also received several decorations for her lengthy service in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Her peacetime service ranged from protecting American Territories in the Pacific Ocean and supplying isolated outposts along Pan Am Airlines "China Clipper" route in her early days to service as a weather ship in the North Atlantic and finally interdicting drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea in her twilight service years.
Formally decommissioned from US Coast Guard service on December 7th, 1986, 45 years to the day after she witnessed the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Taney was donated to the City of Baltimore for use as a museum ship and continues her new role to this day. She is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and shares the honor of being one of two ships remaining worldwide still afloat to be present during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Taney_1936.asp
Over her distinguished career, Taney received three battle stars and numerous theatre ribbons for her World War II service while serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific, and also received several decorations for her lengthy service in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Her peacetime service ranged from protecting American Territories in the Pacific Ocean and supplying isolated outposts along Pan Am Airlines "China Clipper" route in her early days to service as a weather ship in the North Atlantic and finally interdicting drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea in her twilight service years.
Formally decommissioned from US Coast Guard service on December 7th, 1986, 45 years to the day after she witnessed the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Taney was donated to the City of Baltimore for use as a museum ship and continues her new role to this day. She is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and shares the honor of being one of two ships remaining worldwide still afloat to be present during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Taney_1936.asp
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Taney_(WHEC-37)
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Coordinates: 39°17'8"N 76°36'22"W
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- Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay 1043 km
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- Port & Cruise Ship Terminal 2705 km
- puerto brisa approach channel 3128 km
- turning basin 3131 km
- Puerto Brisa - coal terminal 3131 km
- Future coal terminal of a Brasilian company 3133 km
- Balboa Port Terminal 3388 km
- Inner Harbor District 0.6 km
- Inner Harbor 0.6 km
- Baltimore City Center 0.7 km
- Fells Point 1.1 km
- Penn-Fallsway 1.2 km
- Downtown Baltimore 1.3 km
- Mount Vernon (Baltimore) 1.6 km
- Johns Hopkins University - East Baltimore (Medical) Campus 1.8 km
- Mid-Town Belvedere 2.2 km
- Baltimore County, Maryland 17 km
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