If I’m not sure on a pronunciation, I look it up. God knows I’ve been burned on that before. In this case, what I was given for Taney was the pronunciation of the namesake. Evidently, the *ship* is pronounced completely different from the man. Good to know, when I do a dedicated video. Nothing to do for this one.
I've seen the Taney. I had a manager who told me once, "If you need to find my office, look through the cannon. It's aimed right at my window." Also, an alternate history writer used the Taney in one of his books. I told him it was a museum ship in Baltimore and he was surprised. He didn't know it hadn't been scrapped. He was very happy she was still afloat.
The Solace was originally the east coastal liner Iroquois (along with her sister Shawnee) built in 1927 for the New York based Clyde Mallory Lines. The Iroquois had just been recently acquired by the US Navy and converted to a hospital ship earlier in 1941.
So happy to see Hoga on here. She’s living a comfy life at our museum with USS Razorback: a Balao class sub that was in Japan on surrender day. Which gives the museum the distinction of having representatives from the beginning and end of the war. There’s also have the bell of the battleship Arkansas who was featured in a video on this channel and a fragment of Arizona on display. It’s a cool museum that you wouldn’t expect to find in Arkansas of all places.
@@johndonovan8062 yes I'd probably agree with you on that point but didnt the Indian Navy sink a ship although I'm not sure if it was a nuclear submarine.
Thank You. Everyone else forgot about this Infamous Day of December 7, 1941. I had a uncle who was in US Army Air Corp. at Hickam Field that day. Everyone in my family, and most of my friends in late 60's early 70's knew what happened on Today in 1941. The sneak attack by Japanese brought the US into the war, and everyone had a family member in the War and a lot had relatives that died. "Remember Pearl Harbor" was something I heard as kid.
I served on the Taney’s sister cutter the Ingram when it wore the gold hull numbers 35. Gold hull numbers are worn by the oldest active fighting ship in the U.S. fleet. I recommend reading a book named The Bloody Winter which is about the Secretariat class cutters during the war.
Sorry guys. Made a typo. Ingham. It is also in a museum. The Ingham is now in the Keys of Florida. When I was onboard we sailed out of Portsmouth, VA. Made stops in various ports in Florida. Did patrols out of Gitmo, Cuba.
My great Uncle Vernon D. "Mac" McCoy served aboard the USS Solace during WWII as one its lead X-Ray technicians. He would tell us of the campaign areas he worked in like Iwo Jima, were after the days wounded were brought aboard, the ship would move out to deep water anchorage for the night, and then light the whole ship with floodlights stem to stern to show they were a non-combatant. It helped that she was always accompanied by a small flotilla of Destroyer Escorts.
I served onboard Taney as Fireman in 1981. I worked in the boiler room. Steam propulsion was labor intensive. I went to Europe on that ship on a goodwill tour. We sailed up the Keil canal in Germany. She rode like a Cadillac. Good times..
Taney was not at Pearl Harbor, she was moored in Honolulu Harbor a couple miles away. The crew did fire on Japanese aircraft that strayed from Pearl Harbor.
Woah woah okay hold on… phoenix is on this list..??!?? My great grandfather served on her in ww2, he was actually aboard her when Pearl was attacked, thank you so much for giving light to phoenix as imo she is overlooked because her sisters are more “famous”
My brother had a tenant who was in on the USS Vestal on December 7 who had the mid to 4 duty. He was woken up by being thrown out of his rack….and then described the chaos afterwards…with spellbinding detail especially when the Arizona bow up. He had the Perl Harbor Survivors book which was really interesting. Hopefully this lesson will not be forgotten and be repeated. Have a great day!
There was one other IJN ship that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, and that was the Battleship* (corrected) 'Nagato' that served as Adm. Yamamoto's flagship. She was in very bad condition- shot up and bombed but still afloat with a crew of dead Sailors still on board when CPO Jim Oswein and his crew came aboard with orders to get her running again, which they did. I was fortunate to meet Mr Oswein many years ago, and he gave me a copy of his book "Sailorboy" which is a great read if you can find it. He said 'Nagato' was a beautiful ship, but sadly it was sunk after the war in the Atomic Bomb tests at Bikini Atoll where she rests upside down under the waves. She is a popular dive for experienced divers.
It wasn’t a battle cruiser, and it was not in the Pearl Harbor task force But it did survive the war When commissioned, it was the most powerful battleship in the world
'Nagato' was Yamamoto's flagship but I think you're correct in that she wasn't actually in the task force- however she did transmit the famous coded message to the carrier strike force... "Climb Mt. Niitaka." All Good stuff for this day of remembering.
No matter what kind of ship they were and how long they lasted after The Day That Lives In Infamy, these ships continued to admirably serve their nation in the early days of apparent defeat to the victorious conclusion of WW2 and through the Cold War for some of them.
There are a couple other yard craft that survived past 2000 and were present for the attack. Hoga’s sister Nokomis (YT-142) survived until 2010. YO-44 survived until 2017. Lastly, the hulk of the Coast Guard Cutter Tiger (WSC-152) is still semi-afloat today as a breakwater in Tacoma, Washington.
@skynea history could you possibly make a video covering the last of the IJN? what ships were still in service after Yamato sinks, the last IJN operation? what ships survived the war? which ships lasted beyond the end of war maybe past 1950?
Among IJN combat vessels, Yukikaze was the last survivor, serving in the ROC Navy (as the ROCS Dan Yang) until 1966. Among non-combatant IJN vessels, two are still around as museum ships. The first is the NYK ocean liner MS Hikawa Maru, which, after being requisitioned by the IJN, was converted into a hospital ship like USS Solace. She was eventually returned to NYK, and resumed passenger service up until the 1960's, when she was retired. Today, she is berthed at Yamashita Park in her homeport of Yokohama. The second ship is the icebreaker Soya. Originally built for the Soviet Union, she was requisitioned by the IJN as an auxiliary survey vessel and ammo ship. After the war, she was transferred to what eventually became the Japan Coast Guard, serving initially as a lighthouse tender and eventually as an icebreaker, serving in several Antarctic expeditions. She was retired in 1978, and now is a museum ship at the Museum of Maritime Science in Tokyo.
I got to spend a night on the USCG Cutter Taney with my sons cub scout troop. Thank god I was not accepted into the CG Academy as there were two men who snored all night long on the ship. Jesus the sound was horrible.
She was moored at Aloha Tower near the Honolulu power station both of which are still there . She kept planes from taking out the station . Quite important
The IJN Yukikaze(Destroyer) survived the war, and was scrapped in 1966. Not sure if it was the last IJN ship though. The Luck Vampire outlasted them all from what I can tell. edit: Scrapped 1970, dismissed from Chinese service 1966. She was transferred in 1947 to Chinese control.
Among IJN auxiliaries, two are still around: the NYK ocean liner Hikawa Maru (which was requisitioned and converted into a hospital ship) and now preserved as a museum ship in Yokohama, and the icebreaker Soya, which served the IJN as a survey ship and ammo carrier before becoming a lighthouse tender and eventually an icebreaker for what became the Japan Coast Guard. Today Soya is preserved as an exhibit at the Museum of Maritime Science in Tokyo.
Nice compilation! Good job! However, TANEY is pronounced "TAY-nee," being named after Secretary of the Treasury Roger B. Taney. 'Looking forward to your next posts!
YO 44 aka Kodiak Queen was in pearl harbor December 7 th 1941 as well and was in service until 1967 and then worked in the Alaska fishing industry I fished King crab aboard her in 1980 in the bearing sea she ended up sunk intentionally in a dive park in British Virgin Islands just a few years ago.
The only piece left of the USS Tennessee after they scrapped it is the ships bell Sen Howard Baker took it from the National Archives It is still on display in his private museum at his hometown in Huntsville Tn
California to me is the no brainer. Coastal state, plenty of places to put her and a large population that could have raised the money to save the ship
Unfortunately the movement to save numerous naval vessels as museum ships did not really "get up a head of steam" until the 1950s when the population and economy had recovered from WWII and Korea by which time most of the older pre-war navy ships had been scrapped being worn out and there being a surplus of much newer ships in reserve. That is why we have mostly WWII and newer ships as museums.
The US began the war with a relatively modest fleet. We rapidly became the largest and mightiest fleet in the world. As soon as the war ended our fleet soon reverted back to modest numbers again. Build them and use them. Then give them away. We did the same with all of our services. Will we never learn?😐😐
Fact: the oldest ship in commission gets gold numbers, the USCG held the gold numbers for so long between USCGC Ingham and USCGC Taney and others, the Navy made sure that they'd regain the gold numbers and rebuild and recommissioned USS Constitution. 😂😂
Don’t worry about last December seeming a long time ago. Years slip by faster as you age. When you were ten the next year was an additional 10% of your life. At twenty the next year would be +5%. At fifty the next year +2%. My monthly mortgage payments seem to come quicker now then spelling tests did in second grade when I was 7.
