Allied Warships

USS Biddle (DD 151)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

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 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.

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	Lt.Cdr. 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.