USS Biddle (CG-34), also DLG-34, named for Captain Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, was a Belknap-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Her call sign was "Hard Charger"Biddle was laid down by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath, Maine on 9 December 1963, launched on 2 July 1965 and commissioned on 21 January 1967.She saw action in Vietnam, where she is believed to be the last ship to down an enemy aircraft with hand-loaded guns.