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DL-11 / DLG-11 / DDG-42 USS MAHAN


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NZOC

Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign (circa 1968) - SEA POWER

CLASS - FARRAGUT As Built.
Displacement 5648 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 512' 6" (oa) x 52' 4" x 17' 9" (Max)
Armament 1 x 5"/54 RF, 1 Terrier Missile SAM System, 1 ASROC ASW System,
6 x 12.75" MK 32 ASW TT.
Machinery, 85,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 33 Knots, Range 5000 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 360.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Mare Island Navy Yard on July 31 1957.
Launched October 7 1959 and commissioned August 25 1960.
Reclassified Guided Missile Frigate DLG -11 November 14 1956.
Reclassified Guided Missile Destroyer DDG -42 June 30 1975.
Decommissioned and stricken June 15 1993.
Sold August 31 1995, repossessed 10/01/96, scrapping 5% completed.
Fate As of 9 June 2003, at Sparrows Point (Bethlehem Steel) in Baltimore, MD for scrapping.
Metro Machine, Philadelphia took contract in September 2003 and Mahan is in the process of being scrapped.

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Mahan 52kRear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan, born 27 September 1840 at West Point, N.Y., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1859 and served with the South Atlantic and western Gulf Blockading Squadrons during the Civil War. Later appointed President of the Naval War College, he served two tours, 1886-89 and 1892-93. His widely admired study, “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History,” and his many other well reasoned and scholarly books and articles have made a major impact upon geopolitical thought and modern theories of world strategy and have established Mahan’s place among history’s great thinkers. Having retired in 1896, he was recalled during the Spanish-American War to serve on the Naval Strategy Board. Among his many activities during the years which followed were service as a delegate to the First Peace Conference at The Hague; as a member of the Board of Visitors, Naval Academy, 1903; with the Senate Commission on Merchant Marine, 1904; as a member of the Commission to Report on the Reorganization of the Navy Department; and as a lecturer at the Naval War College. He died at Washington, D.C. 1 December 1914. Photo #: NH 48056-KN. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN (1840-1914), portrait in oils by an unidentified artist. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. Navy Art Accession #: 65-350-FS. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Bill Gonyo
DLG-11
Mahan 171kUndated newspaper clipping of the Coontz, King, Mahan and Preble together.Brian N. Kroenung II EMC(SW)
Mahan 180kUndated, location unknown. Identifiable ships from left to right include the USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887), USS Preble (DLG-15), USS Mahan (DLG-11), USS King (DLG-10) and the USS Coontz (DLG-9).Brian N. Kroenung II EMC(SW)
Mahan 48kUndated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.Mike Smolinski
Mahan 65kUndated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.Mike Smolinski
Mahan 72kUndated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.Mike Smolinski
Mahan 118kUndated artisits concept from the NAVSEA Journal.Bob Bush
Mahan 126kUndated image from the NAVSEA Journal.Bob Bush
Mahan 174kUndated newspaper clipping of the Coontz, King, Mahan and Preble in San Diego.Brian Kroenung
Mahan 115kUSS Rogers (DDR-876), USS Brinkley Bass (DD-887), USS Preble (DLG-15), USS Mahan (DLG-11), USS King (DLG-10) and USS Coontz (DLG-9) lined up together at San Diego, 4 February, 1961.Robert Hurst
Mahan 93kAs above.Robert Hurst
Mahan 79kMediterranean May 1967.Craig Hubbard, USN Photo
Mahan 63kAs DLG-11 Sydney, Australia circa 1969.Marc Piché
Mahan 69kAs above.Marc Piché
Mahan 245kGuantanamo Bay Cuba, July 1975© Richard Leonhardt
DDG-42
Mahan 34kUndated, location unknown.-
Mahan 94kUndated, location unknown.© Richard Leonhardt
Mahan 91kUndated, location unknown.© Richard Leonhardt
Mahan 149kUndated, location unknown.© Richard Leonhardt
Mahan 96kUndated, location unknown.© Richard Leonhardt
Mahan 101kUndated, location unknown.© Richard Leonhardt
Mahan 82kUndated, location unknown. US Navy photo from the Federation of American Scientists Web Site.Fred Weiss
Mahan 98kUndated, location unknown.Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr
Mahan 118kUndated image from the NAVSEA Journal.Bob Bush
Mahan 42kAtlantic Ocean, 12 December 1979, aerial view of the USS Independence (CV-62) battle group as it heads home from deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. The ships are, clockwise from top, USS Farragut (DDG-37), USS McCandless (FF-1084), USS Independence (CV-62), USS Detroit (AOE-4), USS Garcia (FF-1040), USS Mahan (DDG-42), USS Caron (DD-970) and USS Peterson (DD-969). US Navy photo by PHC C. Pedrick (DVIC id: DNSC8200297).Defense Visual Information Center
Mahan 138kA series of 8 photos of the Mahan following her 1981 shipyard overhaul at Philadelphia.Bryan Tee
Mahan 89kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 112kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 93kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 115kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 104kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 60kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 75kAs above.Bryan Tee
Mahan 145kDN-SN-83-06748. An SM-2 (ER) missile is loaded on the missile house rail aboard the guided missile destroyer USS MAHAN (DDG-42). The missile will be fired as part of the test and evaluation of the Terrier New Threat Upgrade (NTU) Combat System, March 1 1983.Bill Gonyo
A series of 32 images of the Mahan during a port visit to Amsterdam in 1987.

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Mahan 132kDN-SN-93-01664. May 6 1989, a port bow view of the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 42) during UNREP with the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during exercise SOLID SHIELD '89. U.S. Navy Photo by PH2 Darryl L. Glubczynski.Robert M. Cieri
Mahan 53kAs DDG-42 Amsterdam, The Netherlands August 1989.Marc Piché
Mahan 32kAs DDG-42 Ghent Canal August 1989.Marc Piché
Mahan 64kAs DDG-42 Ghent Canal August 1989.Marc Piché
Mahan 28kAs DDG-42 Terneuzen, The Netherlands August 1989.Marc Piché
Mahan 144kPhiladelphia September 1993.Joe Osciak
Mahan 78kUSS John Rogers (DD-983) and the USS Mahan (DDG-42) moored together along with other inactive ships at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard inactive ship site in November 1999. Photo from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner.Robert Hurst
Mahan 67kPhiladelphia Naval Shipyard, August 31 2002.Roy J. Brooks
Mahan 82kPhiladelphia Naval Shipyard, August 31 2002.Roy J. Brooks
Mahan 110kPhiladelphia Naval Shipyard, August 31 2002.Roy J. Brooks
Mahan 52kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
Mahan 57kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
Mahan 51kShip's patchMike Smolinski
Mahan 55kShip's patchMike Smolinski

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