These four "Secretary" or "Treasury" class cutters were built simultaneously, in the same drydock, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; their keels were laid on 1 May 1935. The photo shows the ships at their multi-ship launching ceremony, on 3 June 1936. Their names were shortened to surnames only in 1937. Early in WWII they served as convoy escorts; later in the war they served as amphibious force flagships, and postwar they returned to Coast Guard duties. All served into the 1980's, decommissioning between 1982 and 1986. Taney and Ingham survive as museums; Campbell was sunk as a target, and Duane was scuttled as a reef.

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