USS Bridget (DE-1024)
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| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | USS Bridget |
| Namesake: | Francis Joseph Bridget |
| 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 | |
| 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: | 2 × Foster-Wheeler boilers 1 × De Laval geared turbine 20,000 shp (15 MW) 1 shaft |
| 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 |
| Armament: | • 1 × 3 inch/50 caliber guns • 1 × Squid ASW mortar • 6 × 324 mm (12.8 in) Mark 32 torpedo tubes • Mark 46 torpedoes |
| Service record |
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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[1] 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.
References
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.
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