USS Biddle (CG-34)

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.

External links

* [http://www.ussbiddle.org The Biddle website] Has contact information for former crew members; lots of photos; information on crew reunions; etc.
* [http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CG34.htm NVR CG-34]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b6/biddle-iv.htm DANFS Biddle IV]
* [http://www.hullnumber.com/CG-34 CG-34 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com]