USS Erie (PG-50)
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USS Erie (PG-50) was the lead ship of the Erie-class gunboats of the United States Navy. Erie was the second US Navy ship to bear the name. The first, Erie, was named after Lake Erie, while this Erie followed the US Navy naming practices of gunboats, like cruisers, being named after US cities, with this Erie being named after Erie, Pennsylvania.
USS Erie in 1940 | |
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United States | |
Name | Erie |
Namesake | City of Erie, Pennsylvania |
Ordered | 1 November 1933 |
Builder | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
Cost | $6,047,216 |
Way number | Dry Dock #1 |
Laid down | 17 December 1934 |
Launched | 29 February 1936 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Edmund A. Knoll |
Commissioned | 1 July 1936 |
Stricken | 28 July 1943 |
Identification | Hull symbol: PG-50 |
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General characteristics [1][2][3] | |
Class and type | Erie-class gunboat |
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Length | |
Beam | 41 ft 3 in (12.57 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 10 in (4.52 m) (full load) |
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Speed | 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 213 |
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Aviation facilities | Derrick |
Erie protected US interests during the Spanish Civil War, operated as a training ship for the United States Naval Academy, and was a convoy escort ship during World War II. She operated in the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Caribbean Sea until torpedoed and fatally damaged by U-163, off Curaçao, in 1942.