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Mahan (DM 7)
ex-DD-102

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down 4 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Mass; Launched 4 August 1918; Commissioned USS Mahan, Destroyer No. 102, 24 October 1918 at Boston Navy Yard; Reclassified as a Light Minelayer, DM-7,17 July 1920; Decommissioned 1 May 1930 at Philadelphia PA; Struck from the Navy Register 22 October 1930; Sold for scrap 17 January 1931 to the Boston Iron and Metal 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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Mahan 66k Seen here still carrying hull No.102. The symbol next to the 102 indicates that Mahan is a member of the Mine Force and has been converted to a Light Minelayer. -
Mahan 37k Seen here still carrying hull No.102. 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): Mahan; USS Lansdale (DM-7, formerly DD-102); 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
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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Mahan (DD-102)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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