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PE-58
ex-Eagle No. 58



Call sign:
George - Have - King - Vice
Eagle Class Patrol Craft:

  • Laid down 25 March 1919 by the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, MI
  • Launched 2 August 1919
  • Commissioned USS Eagle No. 58, 7 November 1918
  • Designated PE-58, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned 27 April 1934
  • Disposed of 30 June 1940
  • Fate unknown.

    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 250psi Thorny-Craft Bureau Mod. boilers, one 2,500shp Poole turbine, Ford single reduction gear, one shaft.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PE-58 104k . Lawrence W. Lee, Jr.
    PE-58 75k Dry docked at Charleston, SC Joseph P. English (crew member)
    via his son
    George E. English
    PE-58 70k Dry docked at Charleston, SC. Joseph P. English is on the left.
    PE-35, 7, 8, 34, 58, 25, 38, 10, 6 & 12 429k c. December 1920/January 1921
    Mare Island Submarine Base
    Bottom to top PE-35, PE-7, PE-8, PE-34, PE-58, PE-25, PE-38, PE-10, PE-6 and PE-12
    Mare Island Navy Yard photo PE 86785 Eagle Dec 1920    		 Darryl Baker
    PE-35 & 58 204k c. April 1927
    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
    PE-35 inboard of PE-58. The larger ship is likely the USS Argonne (AS 10).    		 Joe Radigan
    PE-58 Crew 71k c. 1927/1928
    Joseph Patrick English, age 17/18.    		 Joseph P. English
    via his son
    George E. English
    PE-58 Crew 95k c. 1931
    Washington, DC
    PE-58 Crew 93k
    Commanding Officers
    ??LCDR Henry Parsons Samson, USN4 June 1924
    ??LCDR Louis Robert Moore, USN16 July 1927
    ??LCDR Frank Riley Dodge, USN2 January 1930
    ??LCDR John Frederick Bates, Jr.,USN1934
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    View the PE-58
    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway website
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