USS Bridget
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Name | USS Bridget |
Namesake | Francis Joseph Bridget |
Builder | Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Seattle |
Laid down | 19 September 1955 |
Launched | 25 April 1956 |
Commissioned | 24 October 1957 |
Decommissioned | September 1973 |
Stricken | 12 November 1973 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
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Class and type | Dealey-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,877 long tons (1,907 t) full load |
Length | 314 ft 6 in (95.86 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 170 |
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Service record |
USS Bridget (DE-1024) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. She was named for Francis Joseph Bridget, a naval aviator who served on the Commander's Staff of Patrol Wing 10[1] during the Japanese attack on the Philippines on 8 December 1941. Bridget commanded a Naval Battalion during the Battle of the Points.[2] He was taken prisoner with the American forces on Bataan and was killed 15 December 1944 when a Japanese prison ship in which he was embarked was sunk off Olongapo, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
References
[edit] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- ^ Alsleben, Allan (1999–2000). "US Patrol Wing 10 in the Dutch East Indies, 1942". Dutch East Indies Campaign website. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ Whitman, John (1990). Bataan: Our Last Ditch. New York: Hippocrene Books. p. 257. ISBN 0870528777.
External links
[edit]- navsource.org: USS Bridget
- hazegray.org: USS Bridget
- USS Bridget Website Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine