USCGC Taney
Anchor Bay 120
WW2 Colors & Fittings Version

USCGC TANEY, a World War II, Treasury/Secretary Class Cutter known as “The Queen of the Pacific,” was built in the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1935. Named for the twelfth Attorney General of the United States and the first Roman Catholic to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, TANEY was home ported in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1937.

TANEY is the last surviving warship from a “day that will live in infamy”, the December 7,1941 attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. For the first 80 days of World War II, TANEY patrolled the waters off Hawaii conducting antisubmarine patrols and later served as a convoy escort for the Pacific Fleet until 1943.

In the winter of 1943, TANEY was transferred to the Atlantic where she served in Task Force 66, US Atlantic Fleet. It should be noted that before the transfer, TANEY underwent a re-gunning to be fitted with four, single-mount, 5-inch guns, making her the only ship in her class with this modification. TANEY escorted six convoys between the east coast of the United States and North Africa, fortunately all rather uneventful passages.

Then on April 20, 1944, she fought off a German torpedo bomber attack on Convoy USG 38 off Algiers. In October 1944, TANEY sailed to the Boston Naval Shipyard to be converted to an amphibious command ship. This change included accommodations for an embarked flag officer and his
staff, as well as increased communications and radar facilities.

Her main battery also underwent change: she now sported two open-mount 5-inch guns, as well as 40 and 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns. The work completed, TANEY left Boston for Norfolk, Virginia. With the war raging in the Pacific, TANEY went to join TG 51.8 heading for Okinawa, landing off the Hagushi beaches. Her first day was a busy one, scoring three hits on a Betty bomber and later experiencing four more red alerts. The ship continued on several missions including the occupation of Wakayama after World War II had ended.

On October 14, 1945, TANEY sailed back to the west coast of the United States, arriving at the port of San Francisco. At her final destination of Charleston, South Carolina, once again, TANEY underwent a reconfiguration as a patrol cutter. This re-fitting included a main battery of a single mount, 5-inch gun, a hedgehog, a twin 40-millimeter mount, and two 20-millimeter guns, in addition to depth charge tracks and projectors and was reclassified once again as WPG-37.

In her many decades of service, TANEY participated in several demanding and diversified missions. These post-war duties included serving as a mission station, conducting law enforcement duties, as well as search and rescue missions. In 1969, she entered the theatre of Vietnam, participating in dozens of naval gunfire missions. The ship’s medical staff treated over 6,000 Vietnamese villagers, earning TANEY a Vietnamese Presidential Citation from the government
of the Republic of South Vietnam.

Finally, on December 7, 1986, USCGC TANEY was decommissioned and ownership transferred to the City of Baltimore, Maryland, where today she is displayed in the city’s Maritime Museum.

This gray hull resin replica is a limited edition of 750. 11"L x 4"W x 5"H, overall with base. Numbered from 1-750.

Also available in the fittings and colors of the modern USCG service as AB 119.

The first 600 of the 750 editions of AB119 and AB120 were sold as matched numbered sets AB121.