USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5)
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USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5), previously 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.
| Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
| Charles F. Adams | John King | Lawrence | Biddle/Claude V. Rickets | Barney | Henry B. Wilson | Lynde McCormick | Towers | Sampson | Sellers | Robison | Hoel | Buchanan | Berkeley | Joseph Strauss | Conyngham | Semmes | Tattnall | Goldsborough | Cochrane | Benjamin Stoddert | Richard E. Byrd | Waddell |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |