USS Gamble
USS Gamble at anchor | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Gamble |
| Namesake | Peter Gamble and John M. Gamble |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia |
| Laid down | 12 November 1917 |
| Launched | 11 May 1918 |
| Commissioned | 29 November 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 17 June 1922 |
| Identification | DD-123 |
| Recommissioned | 24 May 1930 |
| Decommissioned | 22 December 1937 |
| Reclassified | 13 June 1930 (DM-15) |
| Recommissioned | 25 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 1 June 1945 |
| Fate | Sunk by scuttling, 16 July 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,090 tons (1,108 t) |
| Length | 314 ft 5 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft 9 in (9.7 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.6 m) |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement | 113 officers and enlisted |
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USS Gamble (DD–123/DM-15) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later converted to a minelayer in World War II.