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Lansdale (DM 6)
ex-DD-101

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 20 April 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 21 July 1918; Commissioned USS Lansdale, Destroyer No. 101, 28 October 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Redesignated a Light Mine Layer, DM-6, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 25 April 1922 at Philadelphia, PA; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia; Recommissioned 1 May 1930; Decommissioned 24 March 1931 at Philadelphia; Struck from the Navy Register 25 January 1937; Sold for scrap in March 1939 to the Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore, MD.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50 mounts, two
1-pounders, one dcp, and two dct; Propulsion four White-Foster boilers, two 27,000shp Bethlehem geared turbines, two shafts.

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Lansdale 33k c. 1921
Seen here still carrying hull No.101.		 Robert Hurst
Israel 91k c. 1921
Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, MA
Still wearing their destroyer bow numbers with the mine force insignia painted on immediately behind, are (from left to right): USS Mahan (DM-7, formerly DD-102); Lansdale; USS Maury (DM 5, formerly DD-100); and USS Israel (DM 3,
formerly DD-98).
Photographed by H. J. Darley, 46 Water Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts
U.S. Navy photo NH 103189 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center		 Barb Rebold
View the Lansdale (DM-6)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Lansdale (DD-101)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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