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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...
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  • converted to the repair ship USS Vestal (AR-4) in 1913 USS Erie (PG-50), a gunboat launched in 1936 and sunk in 1942 USS Lake Erie This article includes a...
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    1932, and commissioned into the United States Navy in 1936: Erie (PG-50) and Charleston (PG-51). The Eries had a design speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)...
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    Erie class (PG-50) Erie (1936) – WW2: 1 battle star, burned out and beached after torpedo hit 12 November 1942, 7 killed, later capsized (PG-51) Charleston...
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    ex-AS-1 USS Erie (PG-50) USS Charleston (PG-51) USS Niagara (PG-52), ex-CMc-2, later AGP-1 USS Vixen (PG-53) USS St. Augustine (PG-54) USS Jamestown (PG-55)...
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  • century USS Erie (PG-50), the lead ship in a class of two Patrol Gunboats, launched in 1936 Erie Blades, two former professional ice hockey teams in Erie, Pennsylvania...
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    his flag first aboard the gunboat USS Erie (PG-50) and from 14 January 1939 aboard the gunboat USS Charleston (PG-51) — until relieved by Rear Admiral...
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    10 November 1942, USS Big Horn sailed in convoy TAG-20, with the gunboat USS Erie (PG-50), two PC-boats (submarine chasers), and a PG-boat (patrol gunboat)...
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  • NAVY: ITS RISE TO GLOBAL PARITY 1900-1922". Retrieved 20 January 2018. "U.S.S. ERIE (PG-50)". Ship History. USS Erie.org. Retrieved April 16, 2015. v t e...
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    together on the water for ten hours. The United States Navy gunboat USS Erie (PG-50) transferred a doctor to Esso Baytown but because of the high seas...
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    The second USS Crockett (PGM-88/PG-88) was a Asheville-class gunboat in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. Crockett was laid down by the Tacoma...
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  • Borneo, 2 May 1945. USS Asheville (PG-21) sunk by Japanese warships south of Java, Netherlands East Indies, 3 March 1942. USS Erie (PG-50) torpedoed by German...
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    (157 km; 98 mi) east of Barbados. She also damaged an American gunboat, USS Erie on 12 November and sank Empire Starling northeast of Barbados on the 21st...
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  • The first USS Ogden (PF-39) was a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945. Originally classified as PG-147, she was the first ship of the...
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    The heavy cruiser USS New Orleans (CA-32) was commissioned in February 1934, the destroyer USS Dale (DD-353) and gunboat USS Erie (PG-50) were both built...
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    USS Wilmington (PG-8) was the lead ship in a class of two United States Navy gunboats. She was laid down on 8 October 1894 at Newport News, Virginia, by...
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    USS Van Buren (PG-150/PF-42), a Tacoma-class frigate patrol frigate, was the second ship of the United States Navy to hold this name. The first Van Buren...
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    (T-ACS-8) USS Equity (AM-229) USS Erben (DD-631) USS Erebus (1865) USS Ericsson (TB-2, DD-56, DD-440) USS Eridanus (AK-92) USS Erie (1813, PG-50) USS Ernest...
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    August 2, 1864 she was purchased by the United States Navy, and was renamed USS Bignonia. She was commissioned on September 14, 1864. She was used by the...
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  • Paul (1965). U.S. Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Co. p. 402. "USS Erie (PG 50)". uboat.net. Retrieved 18 August 2021. "Falco". conlapelleappesaaunchiodo...
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    the ship either stayed at their homes in Erie or at a government-owned hotel near the wharf. In 1853 the USS Michigan was assigned to operate against...
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    SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 (category Shipwrecks of Lake Erie)
    Daily News, Dec 9, 1909, pg 1 Great Lakes Shipwrecks M 59 Lives lost in Lake Erie Storm, The Calumet News, Dec 11, 1909, pg 1 Three Boats and 53 Lives...
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    USS L-1 (SS-40) USS L-2 (SS-41) USS L-3 (SS-42) USS L-4 (SS-43) USS L-5 (SS-44) USS L-6 (SS-45) USS L-7 (SS-46) USS L-8 (SS-48) USS L-9 (SS-49) USS L-10...
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    Owens, p. 213 Winkler (2015), p. 34 Winkler (2015), p. 32 Winkler (2015), pg. 33 Cave, pp. 116–118 Owens, pp. 214–15 "Fort Knox II". Indiana State Museum...
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    USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for...
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    editors Ironsides! The Ship, the Men and the Wars of the USS Constitution (Fireship Press, 2007), 50 Battle of Bladensburg Reputations Ruined University of...
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    for the US Navy. Oliver Hazard Perry, in command of naval forces on Lake Erie during September 1813, named his flagship Lawrence, which flew a broad blue...
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    units. USS Lexington on fire during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 Light cruiser USS Birmingham coming alongside burning aircraft carrier USS Princeton...
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    The Asheville-class gunboat was a class of two gunboats, USS Tulsa and USS Asheville, which was based on Sacramento, an earlier gunboat. Laid down between...
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    USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. James Hackett built her at the Portsmouth...
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