Namesake and Honors
Four US Navy ships were named for him:
- USS Commodore Barney, a Civil War ferryboat
- USS Barney (TB-25), a torpedo boat built at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine in 1900
- USS Barney (DD-149), a Wickes-class destroyer, built at Cramps’ Shipbuilding in Philadelphia, launched 5 Sep 1918
- USS Barney (DDG-6) was a Charles F. Adams guided missile destroyer, built at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, launched 10 Dec 1960.
A replica of a gunboat of Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla today sits in a waterside park in Bladensburg.
A traffic circle on Pennsylvania Ave., SE, in Washington, D.C. is named for Barney.
A road, Commodore Joshua Barney Drive, NE, in Washington, D.C. is named for Barney.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)