USS Bridget (DE-1024)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 19 September 1955 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 24 October 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1968 |
| Struck: | 12 November 1973 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,877 tons (full) |
| Length: | 314.5 ft (95.9 m) overall |
| Beam: | 36.75 ft (11.2 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp (15 MW); 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 27 kt (50 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nmi. (11,000 km) @ 12 kt |
| Complement: | 170 |
| Armament: | 4 × 3"/50 Mk 33 guns; 1 Squid ASW mortar; 6 × 324 mm Mk 32 tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes |
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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 during the Japanese attack on the Philippines on 8 December 1941. 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.
[edit] References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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| Dealey-class destroyer escort |
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Dealey | Cromwell | Hammerberg | Courtney | Lester | Evans | Bridget | Bauer | Hooper | John Willis | Van Voorhis | Hartley | Joseph K. Taussig |
| List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy |
