USS Biddle (CG-34)
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 USS Biddle (CG-34) |
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| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 16 January 1962 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1963 |
| Launched: | 2 July 1965 |
| Acquired: | 10 January 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 21 January 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 November 1993 |
| Struck: | 30 November 1993 |
| Status: | Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling |
| Homeport: | NS Norfolk, Virginia (former) |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7,930 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 547 feet |
| Beam: | 55 feet |
| Draught: | 31 ft (maximum navigational) |
| Propulsion: | 4 - 1200 psi boilers; 2 geared turbines, 2 shafts; 85,000 shaft horsepower |
| Speed: | 32 knots |
| Complement: | 477 (27 officers, 450 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPS-48E air-search radar AN/SPS-49(V)5 air-search radar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | AN/SLQ-32 |
| Armament: | one Mark 42 five-inch / 54-caliber gun, two three-inch guns, one Terrier missile / SM-2ER launcher, six 15.5-inch torpedo tubes, Harpoon missiles, Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 - SH-2F (LAMPS) |
| Motto: | Hard Charger |
USS Biddle (CG-34), also DLG-34, named for Captain Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, was a Belknap-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy.
Biddle was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath, Maine on 9 December 1963, launched on 2 July 1965 and commissioned on 21 January 1967.
She saw action in Vietnam, where she is believed to be the last ship to down an enemy aircraft with hand-loaded guns. She was involved in the Gulf of Sidra incident in 1981.
The cruiser was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 November 1993 and sold for scrap to Metro Marine Corporation of Philadelphia on 4 December 2000.
See USS Biddle for other Navy ships of the same name.
[edit] External links
- The Biddle website Has contact information for former crew members; lots of photos; information on crew reunions; etc.
- NVR CG-34
- DANFS Biddle IV
