Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index USS Claude V. Ricketts(DDG-5), originally Biddle and DD-955, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States 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 on 5 May 1962. Biddle was renamed to Claude V. Ricketts on 28 July 1964 in honor of Admiral Claude V. Ricketts, who had died on 6 July. Claude V. Ricketts was decommissioned on 31 October 1989, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1990 and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994. The scrap contract was terminated on 1 October 1996 and the ship was resold to Metro Machine, Incorporated, of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania on 18 December 2001 . For other ships named Biddle, see USS Biddle. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.