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Mahan (DM 7)



Call sign (1924):
Nan - Easy - Quack - King

ex-DD-102



Call sign (1919):
George - Sail - Watch - King

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Light Minelayer:

  • Laid down 4 May 1918 at Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts
  • 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 1,191 t.
    1921 - 1224 t.
  • Length 314' 4½"
  • Beam 30' 11¼"
  • Draft 9' 2"
  • Speed 34 kts.
    1921 - 35.05 kts.
  • Complement 103
    1921 - 122
  • Armament: Four 4"/50 mounts, two 1-pounders, one depth charge projector and two depth charge tracks
    1921 - Two 1-pounders replaced by one 3"/23 mount
  • Propulsion: Four White-Foster boilers, two 12,100shp Parsons turbines, two shafts
    1921 - Four Yarrow boilers and two 27,880shp Curtis geared turbines, two shafts.

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    Mahan 135k
    Namesake:

    Rear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan, born 27 September 1840 at West Point, N.Y., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1859 and served with the South Atlantic and western Gulf Blockading Squadrons during the Civil War. Later appointed President of the Naval War College, he served two tours, 1886-89 and 1892-93. His widely admired study, “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History,” and his many other well reasoned and scholarly books and articles have made a major impact upon geopolitical thought and modern theories of world strategy and have established Mahan’s place among history’s great thinkers. Having retired in 1896, he was recalled during the Spanish-American War to serve on the Naval Strategy Board. Among his many activities during the years which followed were service as a delegate to the First Peace Conference at The Hague; as a member of the Board of Visitors, Naval Academy, 1903; with the Senate Commission on Merchant Marine, 1904; as a member of the Commission to Report on the Reorganization of the Navy Department; and as a lecturer at the Naval War College. He died at Washington, D.C. 1 December 1914
    Portrait courtesy of the Naval War College Museum. Donated by the United States Naval Academy

    Bill Gonyo/Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 3 March 2022
    Shawmut 358k Nest of four destroyers alongside Shawmut (CM 4). Maury (DD 100) and Mahan are the outboard ships
    U.S. Navy photo M-31 DD CM-4
    Darryl Baker
    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
    Mahan 37k . Barb Rebold
    Mahan 37k
    Mahan 388k Photo from Ernesto Arroyo collection from "United States Warships of World War I" by Paul H. Silverstone Robert Hurst
    Mahan 37k Photo DD 102-3 from collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum Darryl Baker
    Mahan 37k Mahan and USS Shawmut (CM 4) in Cuba in 1919-1920. Both have Curtis H-16 flying boats alongside
    Photo DD 102-Shawmut Cuba 1920 from collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum
    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 6, 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

    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Franklin Paul Conger, USN - USNA Class of 1908
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Captain
    24 October 1918
    02LCDR Aubrey Wray "Jake" Fitch, USN - USNA Class of 1906
    Awarded two Navy Distinguished Service Medals (1942/1944) and the Legion of Merit (1945) - Retired as Admiral
    15 July 1921 - 20 November 1922
    03CDR Andrew Samuel Hickey, USN - Awarded the Legion of Merit (1942)20 November 1922
    04LCDR Roscoe Ernest Schuirmann, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral16 September 1924
    05LCDR George Nathan Barker, USN - USNA Class of 1907
    Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Captain
    17 October 1927 - May 1929
    06CDR Frank Robert Berg, USNMay 1929 - 1 May 1930
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves, Bill Gonyo and Joe Radigan

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