USS Biddle (CG-34)

2 geared turbines; 2 propellers

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

History

The ship was in 1963 at Bath Iron Works laid the keel and put 1967 in the United States Navy in service. After the sea trials began in June, the post- shakedown availability at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Home port, the Naval Station Norfolk.

Already in early 1968 moved the Biddle first time as part of the Vietnam War. 1969 was followed by another, then an overhaul in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and 1972, a third trip to Vietnam., 1974 the destroyer leader moved first into the Mediterranean. The Biddle was also involved in the search for survivors of the downed TWA Flight 841. 1975 Biddle was reclassified to a cruiser.

Between 1976 and 1978 the per Biddle led a ride in European waters by 1979 was followed by an overhaul in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, in 1981 they moved again to the Mediterranean, where she was involved in the Great Syrtis in the fighting between the U.S. and Libya. After the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Biddle showed the presence off the coast, but was soon replaced by the USS Coontz (DDG -40). In the summer of 1982 was followed by another Mediterranean trip.

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