Allied Warships

USS Gamble (DM 15)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDM 15 
ModDestroyer minelayer 
Built byNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down12 Nov 1917 
Launched11 May 1918 
Commissioned29 Nov 1918 
End service1 Jun 1945 
History

Decommissioned on 17 June 1922.
Recommissioned on 24 May 1930.
Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-15 on 13 June 1930.
Damaged beyond repair by Japanese aircraft off Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945.
Decommissioned on 1 June 1945.
Scuttled off Guam on 16 July 1945.

 

Commands listed for USS Gamble (DM 15)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Allan Edward Smith, USN1939??? (1)

2Donald Allen Crandell, USN1941Apr 1942 (1)
3Stephen Noel Tackney, USNApr 1942Mar 1943 (1)

4Cdr. Donald Noble Clay, USNFeb 1945Apr 1945 (1)

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

Sources

  1. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/123.htm

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