USS Claude V. Ricketts
USS ''Biddle''/''Claude V. Ricketts'' (DD-995/DDG-5), was a Charles F. Adams class destroyer, Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the third US Naval ship named after Nicholas Biddle (naval officer), Nicholas Biddle, one of the first five captains of the Continental Navy. 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. Service history As USS Biddle ''Biddle'' operated in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea as part of the United States Second Fleet, Second Fleet until the end of 1963. ''Biddle'' participated in naval activity near Cuba in weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Navy Expedi ...
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