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Gamble (DM 15)

Call sign:
Nan - Easy - Zebra - Roger

ex-DD-123

Sunk 1 June 1945

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer: Laid down, 12 November 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Newport News, VA; Launched, 11 May 1918; Commissioned USS Gamble, Destroyer No. 123, 29 November 1918 at Norfolk Navy Yard; Designated DD-123, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 17 June 1922 at San Diego, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 24 May 1930; Converted to a Light Minelayer, DM-15 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA 13 June 1930; Decommissioned, 22 December 1937 at San Diego, CA; Recommissioned, 25 September 1939; Decommissioned, 1 June 1945 due to battle damage at Apra, Guam; Towed outside Apra Harbor and sunk 1 June 1945; Struck from the Navy Register 22 June 1945.

Specifications: Displacement 1,090 t.; Length 314' 4"; Beam 30' 10" ; Draft 9' 2"; Speed 34 kts; Complement 103; Armament four 4"/50s, one 3"/23, one dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four Yarrow/Thornycroft boilers, two Curtis geared turbines, 24,200 shp at 35kts, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
83k	-	Grover Haynes SM1c 1944-45
150k	Just visible beyond Montgomery (DM 17) and Ramsay (DM 16)	-
132k	Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for light minelayers of the DM-15 (Gamble) class.. This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 14 June 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side and superstructure ends. National Archives photo 80-G-173486	Naval Historical Center
158k	Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for light minelayers of the DM-15 (Gamble) class.. This plan, approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN, is dated 14 June 1944. It shows the ship's port side. National Archives photo 80-G-173487	Naval Historical Center
105k	c. December 1944	Grover Haynes SM1c 1944-45
50k	20 December 1944 Naval Institute Archives.	Joe Radigan
46k	The damaged USS Gamble (DM-15) alongside USS Mataco (ATF-86), 22 February 1945, prior to being towed to Saipan for repairs.	August Billig, Commanding Officer of Mataco via his son Bruce Billig

View the Gamble (DM-15)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Gamble (DD-123)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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