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PE-56



Call sign: November - India - Charlie - Juliet


PE-56 sank 23 April 1945

Eagle Class Patrol Craft: Laid down at the Ford Motor Co., Rouge Plant, Detroit, Mich., 25 March 1919; Launched, 15 August 1919; Commissioned USS Eagle Boat No. 56, 26 October 1919; Redesignated USS PE-56, 17 July 1920; Torpedoed by the German submarine U-853, 23 April 1945 off Portland, ME.

Specifications: Displacement 615 t.; Length 200' 9"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 8' 6"; Speed 18.3kts; Complement 61; Armament two 4"/50 gun mounts, one 3"/50 gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two Bureau Express boilers, Poole geared turbine, one shaft.
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PE-56 60k Photo from the March 2003 issue of Sea Classics Bob Daly/PC-1181
PE-56 Crew 128k The officers and crew of the USS Eagle muster on deck in a Maine harbor a month before the submarine chaser was sunk by a German U-boat in the closing days of World War II.
Associated Press photo
Read the story on the loss of PE-56 - "Historian Brings Honor in Tragedy"-
Stanley C. Svec

View the PE-56
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
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