USS Eldridge
USS Eldridge (DE-173) c. 1944 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Eldridge |
| Namesake | John Eldridge Jr. |
| Ordered | 1942 |
| Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey |
| Laid down | 22 February 1943 |
| Launched | 25 July 1943 |
| Commissioned | 27 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 17 June 1946 |
| Stricken | 26 March 1951 |
| Fate | Sold to Greece, 15 January 1951 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range | 10,800 nmi (12,400 mi; 20,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 15 officers and 201 enlisted |
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USS Eldridge (DE-173), a Cannon-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander John Eldridge Jr., who led an operation for the invasion of the Solomon Islands.
It was the subject of a hoax, the "Philadelphia Experiment", where merchant mariner Carl Meredith Allen claimed that the U.S. Navy had conducted cloaking and teleportation experiments on the ship at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1943.