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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 |
| Struck: | 12 November 1973 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
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| Class & 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) |
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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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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.
Awards[]
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
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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. https://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/patrol_wing10.html.
- ↑ Whitman, John (1990). Bataan: Our Last Ditch. New York: Hippocrene Books. pp. 257. ISBN 0870528777.
External links[]
- Photo gallery of {{{2}}} at NavSource Naval History
- hazegray.org: USS Bridget
- USS Bridget Website Archived 12 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
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