USS Claude V. Ricketts
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For United States Navy ships named Ricketts, see USS Ricketts (DE-254).
USS Biddle/Claude V. Ricketts (DD-995/DDG-5), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the third US Naval ship named after Nicholas Biddle, one of the first five captains of the Continental Navy.
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USS Claude V. Ricketts underway in 1986 | |
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United States | |
Name | Biddle |
Namesake | Nicholas Biddle |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 18 May 1959 |
Launched | 14 June 1960 |
Acquired | 2 May 1962 |
Commissioned | 5 May 1962 |
Renamed | Claude V. Ricketts |
Identification |
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Namesake | Claude V. Ricketts |
Decommissioned | 31 October 1989 |
Reclassified | DDG-5, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 1 June 1990 |
Honours and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Scrapped, 8 November 2002 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load |
Length | 437 ft (133 m) |
Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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Aircraft carried | None |
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Originally to be designated as DD-955, the ship was laid down as DDG-5 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey on 18 May 1959, launched on 4 June 1960 and commissioned as USS Biddle on 5 May 1962, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Biddle was renamed to Claude V. Ricketts on 28 July 1964 in honor of Admiral Claude V. Ricketts, who had died on 6 July 1964.