USS Gamble (DD-123)
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| Namesake: | Lt. Peter Gamble and Lt. Col. John M. Gamble |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down: | 12 November 1917 |
| Launched: | 11 May 1918 |
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| Reclassified: | 13 June 1930 |
| Fate: | Sunk by scuttling, 16 July 1945 |
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| Class and type: | Wickes class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons (1,108 t) |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (96.14 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 113 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | four 4" (102 mm), two 3" (76 mm) guns, twelve 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 1 depth charge projector, 2 depth charge tracks |
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. She was named for two brothers, Lieutenant Peter Gamble and Lieutenant Colonel John M. Gamble.
Gamble was launched 11 May 1918 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Miss Evelyn H. Jackson, relative of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and commissioned at Norfolk 29 November 1918, Commander H. J. Abbett in command.
After shakedown training out of the Virginia Capes, Gamble sailed from New York City 13 January 1919 to take part in maneuvers off Cuba; Key West, Florida; and the New England seaboard until June 1919. Following overhaul at Norfolk, she joined the Pacific Fleet at San Diego 7 August 1919 and operated along the Pacific coast until placed in reserve status in the Mare Island Navy Yard 1 December 1919. In October 1920, she came out of reserve and assisted the flotilla in torpedo practice; maneuvered with the Battle Force; and cruised along the California coast as a training ship for reservists. She decommissioned at San Diego 17 June 1922.
Gamble recommissioned 24 May 1930; was reclassified (DM-15) on 13 June, and converted into a light minelayer in the Mare Island Navy Yard. Arriving at Pearl Harbor from the West Coast, she became flagship of Mine Squadron 2 in July 1930 and later served as flagship of Mine Division 1, Mine Squadron 1. She patrolled Hawaiian waters instructing Naval Reservists in mine warfare and acted as plane guard and radio tracker for seaplanes, each year participating in fleet readiness and fleet problems until she returned to San Diego where she decommissioned 22 December 1937. Recommissioning 25 September 1939 as Europe was plunged into World War II, she joined Mine Division 5 in patrol and schoolship duties out of San Francisco. In April 1941, she proceeded to Pearl Harbor for war readiness patrol in Hawaiian waters as a unit of Mine Division 2.
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