Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Wickes |
Pennant | DD 151 |
Built by | William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 22 Apr 1918 |
Launched | 3 Oct 1918 |
Commissioned | 22 Apr 1919 |
End service | 5 Oct 1945 |
History | Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania on 20 June 1922 |
Commands listed for USS Biddle (DD 151)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. Martin Rowland Peterson, USN | 16 Oct 1939 | 10 Dec 1941 |
2 | Lt.Cdr. John Albert Glick, USN | 10 Dec 1941 | 21 Sep 1942 |
3 | T/Lt.Cdr. Theodore Adolph Torgerson, USN | 21 Sep 1942 | 17 Oct 1943 (1) |
4 | Robert Henry Hopkins, USNR | 17 Oct 1943 | 20 Jan 1945 |
5 | Joseph W. Fitzpatrick, USNR | 20 Jan 1945 | 5 Oct 1945 |
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Notable 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 German U-boat U-128 about 25 nautical miles north of Bethel Shoals off the Florida coast in position 28°25'N, 80°02'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 German U-boat U-130 about 300 nautical miles north-east of St. Martins in position 21°42'N, 60°00'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 German U-boat U-159 about 175 nautical miles south of the Windward Passage in position 15°36'N, 67°52'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 German U-boat U-508 about 40 nautical miles north-east of Isla de Margarita in position 11°34'N, 63°26'W.
16 Jan 1943
USS R-12 (Lt.Cdr. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises off Guantanamo Bay together with USS Biddle (Lt.Cdr. T.A. Torgerson, USN) and USS PC-625.
13 Mar 1943
USS Biddle picks up 53 survivors of the American tanker Cities Service Missouri and 37 survivors of the Dutch merchant Ceres that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-68 about 170 nautical miles north-west of Curaçao in position 14°50'N, 71°46'W.
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