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| History | |
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 United States | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Armament |
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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.
- ^ 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.