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DD-123 / DM-15 Gamble



DM-15 call sign:
November - Echo - Zulu - Romeo



Wickes Class Destroyer / Gamble 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 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; Redesignated DM-15, 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, Guam and sunk, 1 June 1945; Struck from the Naval 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.
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Gamble 83k - Grover Haynes SM1c 1944-45
Montgomery 150k Just visible beyond Montgomery
and Ramsay
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Gamble 105k c. December 1944 Grover Haynes SM1c 1944-45
Gamble 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. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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