USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5)
The USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG -5 ) was a destroyer of the Charles F. Adams - class services in the United States Navy.
History
The USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG -5), led to 1964 as USS Biddle (DD -955 ) and USS Biddle (DDG -5) was given in 1957 at New York Shipbuilding in order, where it was put on 1959 Kiel. Entry into service with the U.S. Navy took place 1962.
After the collision, the cruiser USS Belknap (CG -26) with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67) was the Claude V. Ricketts after the fire of the cruiser as a rescue ship. The Ricketts went there alongside the Belknap. Their bodies were burned to the deck because of the magnesium content was kindled in the aluminum alloy in the heat of the fire itself. A total of eight sailors died in the fire.
1989 Claude V. Ricketts was decommissioned in 1990 and stricken from the register of ships. In 1994 the ship was sold for breaking down. This contract was revoked in 1996. 2001, the destroyer was eventually sold to Metro Machine, Incorporated, of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, which exploded the ship until 8 November 2002.
United States Navy: Charles F. Adams Class
USS Charles F. Adams | USS John King | USS Lawrence | USS Claude V. Ricketts | USS Barney | USS Henry B. Wilson | USS Lynde McCormick | USS Towers | USS Sampson | USS Sellers | USS Robison | USS Hoel | USS Buchanan | USS Berkeley | USS Joseph Strauss | USS Conyngham | USS Semmes | USS Tattnall | USS Goldsborough | USS Cochrane | USS Benjamin Stoddert | USS Richard E. Byrd | USS Waddell
German Navy: Lütjens class
Lütjens | Molders | drum
Royal Australian Navy Perth class
HMAS Perth | HMAS Hobart | HMAS Brisbane
- Charles F. Adams Class