USS Biddle (CG-34)
USS Biddle (CG-34)
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 United States
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| Name: | Biddle |
| Namesake: | Nicholas Biddle |
| Ordered: | 16 January 1962 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 9 December 1963 |
| Launched: | 2 July 1965 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. William H. Bates |
| Acquired: | 10 January 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 21 January 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 November 1993 |
| Struck: | 30 November 1993 |
| Homeport: | NS Norfolk, Virginia (former) |
| Motto: | Deus Clypeus Meus |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap. Scrapping completed 2 January 2002 |
| Badge: | _insignia_1966.png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Belknap-class guided missile cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,930 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 547 ft (167 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) (maximum navigational) |
| Propulsion: |
4 – 1,200 psi (8,300 kPa) boilers; 2 geared turbines, 2 shafts; 85,000 shp (63,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement: | 477 (27 officers, 450 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 |
| Armament: |
one Mark 42 five-inch / 54-caliber gun, two 3"/50 caliber guns, one Mark 10 Mod 7 Missile System Terrier missile / SM-2ER/ASROC launcher, six 15.5-inch torpedo tubes, Harpoon missiles, Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x SH-2F Seasprite (LAMPS) |
4 – 1,200 psi (8,300 kPa) boilers; 2 geared turbines,
one Mark 42 five-inch / 54-caliber gun, two 3"/50 caliber guns, one Mark 10 Mod 7
USS Biddle (DLG-34/CG-34) was a Belknap-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. 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 on 30 November 1993 and sold for scrap on 4 December 2000.
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 was named for Captain Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, her call sign was "Hard Charger".
Five months after commissioning, Biddle completed preparations for her final acceptance trials, concluded those trials, and conducted shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She completed shakedown on 29 May and headed, via Yorktown, Virginia—to Boston, Massachusetts. The Destroyer Leader "guided-missile" arrived in Boston on 2 June and began post-shakedown availability at the Boston Naval Shipyard five days later. Biddle completed the availability on 30 October and got underway for her new home port—Norfolk, Virginia—the following day. The warship entered Hampton Roads early in November, but stayed only four days, putting to sea on 7 November for the first in a series of exercise and weapons-qualifications cruises to the Caribbean. Those at-sea periods occupied her until mid-December when she began holiday standdown and preparations for overseas movement.
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