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In article <30511@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hartlemp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Michael P. Hartley) writes:
>beleive it was the Battleship Idaho, disapeared from the radar screens. In fact
>the entire ship vanished from visible sight. A few minutes later, the ship reappeared, and they turned off the generators. Then the ship, and the crew even
>after they left the ship, continued to disappear and reappear at random
>intervals for several years.
In all the versions I've heard, except one mentioned briefly in Moore &
Berlitz's book, it was the destroyer escort "Eldridge". (I can't remember
the one mentioned, but it definitely wasn't the "Idaho". The story is that
someone said that the names of the Eldridge and the other ship were
switched afterwards to throw people off the trail.)
> An interesting sideline is that the Idaho currently is in mothballs, and it
>never saw action in WWII. (I think I heard that somewhere. This is all very
>hush hush, so I am just repeating heavily biased rumors.)
The Eldridge was sold to Greece (minus quite a bit of unidentified weight!)
where it was renamed the Leon. I think it's still in service.
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From sheaffer@netcom.COM (Robert Sheaffer) Fri Jan 10 19:20:31 1992