USS Biddle (CG-34)

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USS Biddle (CG-34)
career USN Jack
Ordered: January 16, 1962
Keel laying: December 9, 1963
Launch: July 2, 1965
Commissioning: January 21, 1967
Decommissioning: November 30, 1993
Fate: Disassembled
Technical specifications
Displacement: 8957   ts
Length: 166.7 m
Width: 16.8 m
Draft: 9.4 m
Drive: 4  water tube boilers ;

2  gear turbines ; 2 propellers

Speed: 34 kn
Crew: 64 officers, 546 men

The USS Biddle (CG-34) , even with the addition DLG-34 referred, was a guided missile cruiser of the Belknap class . It was named after Nicholas Biddle , a Captain in the Continental Navy .

history

The ship was laid down at Bath Iron Works in 1963 and entered service with the United States Navy in 1967 . After the test drives, post-shakedown availability began in the Boston Naval Shipyard in June . Home port was the Naval Station Norfolk .

Already in early 1968 the Biddle laid for the first time as part of the Vietnam War . Another overhaul followed in 1969 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and a third voyage to Vietnam in 1972. In 1974, the destroyer leader finally moved to the Mediterranean for the first time. The Biddle was also involved in the search for survivors of the crashed TWA Flight 841 . In 1975 the Biddle was reclassified as a cruiser.

Between 1976 and 1978 the Biddle carried out a voyage in European waters, an overhaul in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard followed in 1979, and it was not until 1981 that it relocated to the Mediterranean, where it was involved in the fighting between the USA and Libya in the Great Syrte . After the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat , the Biddle showed a presence off the coast, but was soon replaced by the USS Coontz (DDG-40) . Another Mediterranean voyage followed in the summer of 1982.

In the early 1990s, the Biddle finally took part in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm and was finally decommissioned in 1993. The ship remained until 2000 in the reserve fleet of States United Maritime Administration in Suisun Bay , San Francisco and finally by the Metro Marine Corporation canceled.

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