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USS Biddle (DD 151)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 151 
Built byWilliam Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 Apr, 1918 
Launched3 Oct, 1918 
Commissioned22 Apr, 1919 
End service5 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania on 20 June 1922
Recommissioned on 16 October 1939
Reclassified as Auxilliary AG-114 on 30 June 1945
Decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts on 5 October 1945
Stricken on 24 October 1945
Sold for scrap on 3 December 1946. 

Noteable events involving Biddle include:

22 Feb, 1942
USS Biddle picks up 34 survivors of the American tanker Cities Service Empire that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-128 about 25 nautical miles north of Bethel Shoals off the Florida coast in position 28º25'N, 80º02'W.

13 Apr, 1942
USS Biddle picks up 37 survivors of the American tanker Esso Boston that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-130 about 300 nautical miles north-east of St.Martins in position 21º42'N, 60º00'W.

23 Jun, 1942
USS Biddle picks up 36 survivors of the American tanker E.J. Sadler that was shelled and finally sunk with scuttling charges the previous day by the German submarine U-159 about 175 nautical miles south of the Windward Passage in position 15º36'N, 67º52'W.

8 Nov, 1942
USS Biddle picks up 14 survivors from the American merchant Nathaniel Hawthorne that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-508 about 40 nautical miles north-east of Isla de Margarita in position 11º34'N, 63º26'W.

13 Mar, 1943
USS Biddle picks up 52 survivors of the American tanker Cities Service Missouri that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-68 about 200 nautical miles north-west of Curaçao in position 14º50'N, 71º46'W.


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