USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5)
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| Ordered: | March 3, 1957 |
| Keel laying: | May 18, 1959 |
| Launch: | June 14, 1960 |
| Commissioning: | May 5th 1962 |
| Decommissioning: | October 31, 1989 |
| Painted: | June 1, 1990 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 2002 |
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| Displacement: | 4,500 tons |
| Length: | 133.2 m |
| Width: | 14.3 m |
| Draft: | 6.7 m |
| Drive: | Steam turbines with 70,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61+ km / h) |
| Crew: | approx. 350 |
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The USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5) was a destroyer of the Charles F. Adams class in the service of the United States Navy .
history
The USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5), until 1964 as USS Biddle (DD-955) or USS Biddle (DDG-5), was commissioned in 1957 from New York Shipbuilding , where it was laid down in 1959 . It was commissioned with the US Navy in 1962. The name was changed in honor of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) Admiral Claude V. Ricketts, who died on July 6, 1964 .
At this point in time, the ship was the site of a year and a half experiment as part of the planning for the Multilateral Force (MLF) , which was referred to as a “mixed manning demonstration”. In order to examine the possibilities of the cooperation of soldiers from different states in mixed-national military units, two-thirds of the crew of the USS Biddle were from June 1964 to the end of 1965 from the navies of the Federal Republic of Germany , Italy , Greece , the United Kingdom , the Netherlands and Turkey posed; the remaining third consisted of US Navy personnel. The name was also changed during this period to honor Admiral Ricketts' contribution to the development of the concept of mixed teams and international military cooperation. The mixed manning demonstration was considered a great success, but since the MFL was not set up, the mixed crew remained unique for the time being.
After the collision of the cruiser USS Belknap (CG-26) with the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) , the Claude V. Ricketts served as a rescue ship after the fire of the cruiser. The Ricketts went alongside the Belknap . Their superstructures had burned down to the deck because the magnesium content in the aluminum alloy had self-ignited in the heat of the fire. A total of eight sailors were killed in the fire.
In 1989 the Claude V. Ricketts was decommissioned and removed from the ship register in 1990. In 1994 the ship was sold for dismantling. This contract was revoked in 1996. In 2001 the destroyer was finally sold to Metro Machine, Incorporated , of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , who dismantled the ship by November 8, 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Lundquist: Mixed Manning Demonstration Was a Success. Guided-Missile Destroyer Sailed with Multinational Crew . In: Sea Classics , September 2006, questia.com. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Cruise Book for the period of the mixed manning demonstration, navysite.de, accessed on April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Barken Noah . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1964, pp. 47-59 ( online ).