USS Bridge (AF-1)

	USS Bridge (AF-1) at anchor, location unknown, 27 December 1918
History
United States
Name	Bridge
Namesake	Horatio Bridge
Builder	Boston Navy Yard
Cost	$1,253,491 (hull & machinery)
Laid down	12 June 1915
Launched	18 May 1916
Sponsored by	Mrs. Granville Searcy Fleece
Commissioned	2 June 1917
Decommissioned	27 June 1946
Reclassified	Provisions Stores Ship (AF), 17 July 1920
Stricken	1946 (est.)
Identification	Hull symbol: AF-1 (17 July 1920); Code letters: NOI (1917-1941); ; Code letters: NESF (WWII); ;
Honors and; awards	1 × battle star for Okinawa Gunto operation
Fate	Sold, 22 December 1947
Philippines
Name	Don Jose
Acquired	122 December 1947
Fate	Scrapped, March 1953
General characteristics
Class & type	Bridge-class stores ship
Tonnage	3,170 DWT
Displacement	8,500 long tons (8,600 t); 9,500 long tons (9,700 t) (1945-);
Length	423 ft 11 in (129.21 m)
Beam	55 ft 2 in (16.81 m)
Draft	22 ft 9 in (6.93 m)
Installed power	2 × White Forester boilers, 200 psi (1,400 kPa); 5,000 shp (3,700 kW);
Propulsion	2 × Boston Navy Yard triple expansion steam engines; 2 × propeller;
Speed	14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Capacity	86,757 cu ft (2,456.7 m3) (non-refrigerated); 4,300 cu ft (120 m3) (refrigerated);
Complement	238 officers and enlisted; 21 officers (1945); 261 enlisted (1945);
Armament	As built; 4 × 5 in (130 mm)/51 caliber guns; 1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber gun (Anti-aircraft); 1942; 2 × 5 in/51 caliber guns (aft); 1 × 3 in/50 caliber gun (AA); 1 × 1.1 in (28 mm)/75 caliber gun (forward) (AA); 8 × single mount 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons; 1945; 1 × twin mount 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors gun (forward) (AA); 1 × 5 in/38 caliber gun (dual purpose) (aft); 4 × 3 in/50 caliber guns (DP);

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. She was named for Horatio Bridge, the Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, from 1854 to 1868.