USS Whitney (AD-4) - 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. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Mean Of Transportation