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USS Eldridge
USS Eldridge

The Eldridge (AUDIO: The Macros)

The USS Eldridge was a United States Navy ship used in Earth's Second World War to escort freighters to North Africa and Europe.

History[]

The USS Eldridge was a US Navy ship launched on 25 July 1943. It escorted vital supply ships to North Africa and Europe during the Second World War. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada [+]Phil Ford, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).)

It was part of the "Philadelphia Experiment" in 1943, which tried to make the ship invisible. Supposedly, a powerful electromagnetic device bent light around the ship to make it invisible. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada [+]Phil Ford, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).) Instead, the project bent the laws of time and space, causing the ship to travel through time. (AUDIO: The Macros) According to rumour, it vanished and was teleported 200 miles away, before returning, briefly travelling back in time. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada [+]Phil Ford, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).) The crew members who didn't die were driven insane. The US government tried to stop the project, but were thwarted when the ship fell through a dimensional rift and ended up on the sea floor. (AUDIO: The Macros) The US Navy insisted that this was a hoax. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada [+]Phil Ford, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).)

The ship vanished, reappearing underwater near the former site of submerged London in the 23rd century. It let loose a blast of vortron energy, which poisoned people on the nearby underwater base Poseidon 8. The ship had left a dimensional vortex open, bringing the Vashta Nerada and an alien shark through the gateway. The Eleventh Doctor concocted a cure for the vortron radiation poisoning and closed the gateway. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada)

Behind the scenes[]

  • An urban legend regarding the USS Eldridge purports that, during wartime, experiments did take place there involving invisibility and teleportation.
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