USS Gamble
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USS Gamble (DD–123/DM-15) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later converted to a minelayer in World War II.
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USS Gamble at anchor | |
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United States | |
Name | Gamble |
Namesake | Peter Gamble and John M. Gamble |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 12 November 1917 |
Launched | 11 May 1918 |
Commissioned | 29 November 1918 |
Decommissioned | 17 June 1922 |
Identification | DD-123 |
Recommissioned | 24 May 1930 |
Decommissioned | 22 December 1937 |
Reclassified | 13 June 1930 (DM-15) |
Recommissioned | 25 September 1939 |
Decommissioned | 1 June 1945 |
Fate | Sunk by scuttling, 16 July 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,090 tons (1,108 t) |
Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.6 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 113 officers and enlisted |
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