The Cannon class was a class of destroyer escorts built by the United States primarily for antisubmarine warfare and convoy escort service during World War II . The lead ship, USS Cannon , was commissioned on 26 September 1943 at Wilmington, Delaware . Of the 116 ships ordered, 44 were cancelled and six were commissioned directly into the Free French Forces . Destroyer escorts were regular companions escorting vulnerable cargo ships.
15-721: 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 . Eldridge was born in Buckingham County, Virginia , on 10 October 1903 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1927. After flight training at Pensacola, Florida , he served at various stations on aviation duty. From 11 September 1941, he
30-591: A team of four people (a journalist , a psychic , a meteorologist , and an oceanographer ) to discover the secret of the Bermuda Triangle . With the help of a Greenpeace survivor and a tycoon they ultimately find out the truth about a high-tech underwater facility operated by the United States Navy and its relation to the Philadelphia Experiment , determining that the Triangle is a wormhole . They close
45-575: A tear in the fabric of space-time which they refer to as the Bermuda Triangle . The Doctor Who audio drama, The Macros , explores the proposed Philadelphia Experiment as if the ship had entered an alternative dimension but at the loss of its crew. The USS Eldridge makes a brief appearance in the episode " Journey into Mystery " of the Disney+ series Loki , which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The episode suggested that
60-516: The Evarts -class (GMT = General Motors Tandem) was identical. The DET's substitution for a turboelectric propulsion plant was the primary difference with the predecessor Buckley ("TE") class. The DET was, in turn, replaced with a direct-drive diesel plant to yield the design of the successor Edsall ("FMR") class. A total of 72 ships of the Cannon class were built. During World War II, six ships of
75-825: The Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newark, New Jersey . Eldridge was launched on 25 July 1943, sponsored by Lieutenant Commander Eldridge's widow Mrs. John Eldridge Jr., and commissioned on 27 August 1943. Between 4 January 1944 and 9 May 1945, Eldridge sailed on the vital task of escorting, to the Mediterranean Sea , men and materials to support Allied operations in North Africa and on into southern Europe . She made nine voyages to deliver convoys safely to Casablanca , Bizerte , and Oran . Eldridge departed New York City on 28 May 1945, for service in
90-576: The Pacific . En route to Saipan in July, she made contact with an underwater object and immediately attacked, but no results were observed. She arrived at Okinawa on 7 August, for local escort and patrol, and with the end of hostilities a week later, continued to serve as escort on the Saipan – Ulithi –Okinawa routes until November. Eldridge was placed out of commission in reserve 17 June 1946. On 15 January 1951, she
105-815: The Philadelphia Experiment was indeed conducted, and the ship was actually teleported to the Void . Cannon-class destroyer escort With the decommissioning of the Philippine Navy's BRP Rajah Humabon (PS-11) in March 2018; HTMS Pin Klao (DE-413) of the Royal Thai Navy is the only ship of the class in commission. The class was also known as the DET type from their diesel electric tandem drives. The propulsion system of
120-480: The Triangle, destroying it forever, but their efforts at closing the wormhole also disrupt time and cause the Triangle never to have existed in the first place, with everyone who was taken being returned and living out their lives as though nothing had ever happened. In the new Triangle-less timeline the only ones who know the Bermuda Triangle ever existed are the team members who destroyed it. The Triangle won
135-549: The US December 5–7, 2005. It was written by Dean Devlin , Bryan Singer and Rockne S. O'Bannon , directed by Craig R. Baxley , and produced by special effects experts Volker Engel and Marc Weigert , together with Kelly Van Horn, for Devlin's and Singer's production companies Electric Entertainment and Bad Hat Harry Productions , the BBC , and Engel's and Weigert's production company Uncharted Territory . A shipping company employs
150-624: The class were earmarked for the Free French Naval Forces and a further eight were transferred the Brazilian Navy . After the end of World War II, the United States Navy transferred many ships of the Cannon class to other navies. The Triangle (miniseries) The Triangle is a three-part US-British-German science fiction television miniseries concerning the Bermuda Triangle , which first aired on Sci-Fi Channel in
165-505: The place and time the experiment initially occurred, the deck of the USS Eldridge in 1943. The plot of the 2005 television miniseries The Triangle also uses the premise that the Philadelphia Experiment was conducted but did not work as intended. In the third episode, it is revealed that the US Navy believes that the experiment aboard the USS Eldridge in 1943 was responsible for creating
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#1732873709504180-501: The ship was never in Philadelphia between August and December 1943. The film The Philadelphia Experiment is based on the "Philadelphia Experiment" story and features two sailors aboard the USS Eldridge . The audio drama podcast Ars Paradoxica works on the premise that the Philadelphia Experiment was conducted, but did not work as intended, instead creating time travel. Because of this, people can only travel back in time towards
195-507: Was Commander, Scouting Squadron 71, attached to Wasp (CV-7) . Lieutenant Commander Eldridge was killed in action in the Solomon Islands on 2 November 1942. For his extraordinary heroism in leading the air attack on Japanese positions in the initial invasion of the Solomons on 7 August and 8 August 1942, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross . Eldridge was laid down 22 February 1943, by
210-490: Was to be rendered invisible (i.e., by a cloaking device ) to human observers for a brief period. The story is considered a hoax: there is a general lack of evidence for the alleged experiment; the person who started the myth—a merchant seaman named Carl Meredith Allen —admitted that he had made up the story and relayed it to Morris K. Jessup ; and the Eldridge ' s deck log and war diary (preserved on microfilm ) show that
225-704: Was transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance Act to Greece where she served as Leon (D54) . Leon was decommissioned on 5 November 1992, and on 11 November 1999, was sold as scrap to the Piraeus -based firm V&J Scrapmetal Trading Ltd. The " Philadelphia Experiment " was a purported naval military experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , sometime around 28 October 1943, in which Eldridge
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