USS ERIE PG-50 --- Ship's Data

Ship's Data

(as equipped in September, 1942)

Named for:	City of Erie, Pennsylvania
Where built:	New York Navy Yard
Date of Act authorizing construction:	June 16, 1933
Date construction contract signed:	June 19, 1933
Date assigned to ship yard:	November 1, 1933
Date keel laid:	December 17, 1934
Date launched:	January 29, 1936
Date commissioned:	July 1, 1936

Length overall:	328 feet, 6 inches
Length on water line:	308 feet (at standard displacement)
Extreme beam at/below water line	41 feet, 3 inches (at standard displacement)
Mean draft	11 feet, 4 inches (at standard displacement)
Design displacement	2,000 tons
Maximum draft in service	14 feet, 6 inches
Displacement in service	2,339 tons
Maximum speed:	20 knots
Range:	8,000 nautical miles @ 12 knots

Smoke pipes:	1
Masts:	2
Engines:	2, Parsons geared turbine
Boilers:	2, Babcock and Wilcox
Generator sets:	3 (2 turbo, 1diesel), all A.C.
Armament:
six-inch 47 caliber, Mark 17 guns	4, with Mark 35 battery director (mounted atop bridge)
quadruple, 1.1 inch anti-aircraft guns	4
single 20mm anti-aircraft guns	4
depth charge roll-off racks	2, Mark 6 (each holding 15 depth charges)
Radar:	1, Mark 3 (mounted atop battery director)
Sonar:	1, ASDIC
Scout Plane:	1, OS2U "Kingfisher"

Accommodations:	1 Captain's cabin
	1 Admiral's cabin
	1 guest cabin with 2 staterooms
	15 officers' wardrooms
	18 Chief Petty Officers' quarters
	208 enlisted men's berths

Small boats:	1, 36-ft motor launch (holding 70 men)
	1, 35-ft motor boat (holding 27 men)
	2, 30-ft motor launches (each holding 40 men)
	2, 26-ft motor whale boats (each holding 24 men)
	2, balsa life floats (each holding 25 men)
	1, 10-ft punt

Data from: Ships Data, U.S. Naval Vessels. United States Government Printing Office. Washington, DC: 1938 and U.S.S. ERIE PG-50 Booklet of General Plans (completed 31 July 1934).