# Pearl Harbor's sole survivor USS Hoga: Where now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearl-harbors-sole-survivor-uss-hoga-where-now/326943 "2005-10-19T17:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearl-harbors-sole-survivor-uss-hoga-where-now/326943/1 "2005-10-19T17:16:20Z")
So far as I now, this is the only ship still floating that was present in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I had read that it was selected to be a showcase at a museum at the well-known naval port of North Little Rock, AR. However, I have not been able to find anything indicating that it had actually been moved yet. Has it, or is it still rusting out in San Francisco Bay? ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearl-harbors-sole-survivor-uss-hoga-where-now/326943/2 "2005-10-19T17:35:54Z")
> [@Earl Snake-Hips Tucker](#): > > So far as I now, this is the only ship still floating that was present in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I had read that it was selected to be a showcase at a museum at the well-known naval port of North Little Rock, AR. However, I have not been able to find anything indicating that it had actually been moved yet. Has it, or is it still rusting out in San Francisco Bay? Here is the [blog](http://aimmatnlr.blogspot.com/) for the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum at North Little Rock. “Hoga is expected to be open to the public by the end of the year, the Navy said.” It does not appear that the movement has happened yet, however. Or it could have and they just didn’t blog it, but that seems unlikely considering the frequency with which they blog. ---
**Author:** ![PBear42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PBear42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PBear42)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearl-harbors-sole-survivor-uss-hoga-where-now/326943/3 "2005-10-19T17:41:37Z")
There’s at least one other, the Coast Guard cutter [USCGC Taney](http://www.baltomaritimemuseum.org/taney/taneyframe.html), on exhibition in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. > [@](#): > > USCGC TANEY was constructed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1935-36 as one of seven Treasury/Secretary Class cutters produced for the US Coast Guard before World War II. Home ported in Honolulu, Hawaii beginning in 1937, TANEY was attached to Destroyer Division 80 in the summer of 1941 and was in action against Japanese planes during the Pearl Harbor Attack. By virtue of her 50 year career, she is the last surviving warship afloat today from the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearl-harbors-sole-survivor-uss-hoga-where-now/326943/4 "2013-07-03T17:20:57Z")
OK, so what’s the hold-up? Looks like it’s been in Suisin Bay, California, for a while. The last I could find on the transfer was from [last August](http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_21206853/historic-uss-hoga-tug-at-vallejos-mare-island), so almost a year later, and still no movement. Are they afraid that might not be able to handle the journey. It was originally schedule to be moved at the end of 2012, the Navy having transferred ownership as far back as 2005.