Name USS Whitney Commissioned 2 September 1924 Construction started 23 April 1921 Length 147 m | Laid down 23 April 1921 Decommissioned 22 October 1946 Launched 12 October 1923 | |
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Namesake William Collins Whitney Fate Sold for scrap, 18 March 1948 | ||
USS Whitney (AD-4) was a Dobbin-class destroyer tender named for United States Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney. She was launched on 12 October 1923, and was commissioned on 2 September 1924. She was decommissioned on 22 October 1946, later being sold for scrap to the Dulien Ship Products firm on 18 March 1948. She was on station in Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack, amid a flotilla of destroyers; Tucker, Conyngham, Reid, Case, and Selfridge. The Whitney was undamaged during the attack, and in 1948 was sold for scrap metal.
Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle, who became famous for escorting presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to prison, was a former sailor on the Whitney, and was on board the ship during the attack on Pearl Harbor.