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History | |
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Name | USS Bridge |
Namesake | Horatio Bridge |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard |
Cost | $1,253,491 (hull & machinery)[1] |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 18 May 1916 |
Commissioned | 2 June 1917 at Boston, Massachusetts |
Decommissioned | 27 June 1946 at Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan |
Stricken | 1946 (est.) |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star for Okinawa Gunto operation |
Fate | Scrapped 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bridge-class stores ship |
Displacement | 5,207 long tons (5,291 t) |
Length | 422 ft 11 in (128.91 m) |
Beam | 55 ft 3 in (16.84 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m) |
Propulsion | Unknown, single propeller |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 238 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Bridge (AF-1) was a stores ship in service with the United States Navy from 1917 to 1946. Following a short commercial service, she was scrapped in 1953.