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USCGC Scally (CGE 20)



Call sign (1924):
Nan - Easy - King - Cast

ex-USS Eagle No. 20



Call sign (1919):
George - Cast - Love - Tare


Eagle No. 20 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

Eagle Class Patrol Craft:

  • Laid down 26 August 1918 by the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan
  • Launched 15 February 1919
  • Commissioned USS Eagle No. 20, 28 July 1919
  • Transferred to the Coast Guard 26 November 1919 at New London, CT
  • Commissioned USCGC Scally (CGE 20), 20 January 1920
  • Operated out of Baltimore, MD
  • Decommissioned 13 September 1920 at the Coast Guard Depot South Baltimore, MD
  • Sold 13 November 1922 to the Pottstown Steel Co. of Pottstown, PA and scrapped.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 615 t.
  • Length 200' 9"
  • Beam 33' 1"
  • Draft 8' 6"
  • Speed 18.3 kts.
  • Complement 61
  • Armament: Two 4"/50 gun mounts, and two .50 cal. machine guns
  • Propulsion: Two Bureau Express boilers, Poole geared turbine, one shaft.
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    Eagle Boat No. 20 37k
    Namesake:

    1st LT Archibald Howard Scally, USCG, Class of 1906 Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction, a member of the torpedoed USCGC Tampa, lost during World War I

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