USS Dahlgren (DD-187)
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| Name: | Dahlgren |
| Namesake: | John A. Dahlgren |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down: | 8 June 1918 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 6 January 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 December 1945 |
| Struck: | 8 June 1946 |
| Fate: | sold 17 June 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,190 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in (95.83 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
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| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 111 officers and enlisted |
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USS Dahlgren (DD-187/AG-91) was a Clemson-class destroyer which served in the United States Navy during World War II. Entering service in 1920, the ship had a brief active life before being placed in reserve in 1922. Reactivated in 1932, Dahlgren remained in service mainly as a test ship until 1945. She was sold for scrapping in 1946. She was named for Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), and was the second ship of three which served in the US Navy to receive the name.
Dahlgren was launched 20 November 1918 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Mrs. J. Pierce, daughter of Rear Admiral Dahlgren. The ship commissioned on 6 January 1920 with Commander L. Sahm in command.
Dahlgren joined the Atlantic Fleet for exercises and training along the east coast, in Mexican waters, off Guantanamo Bay and in the Panama Canal Zone. She took part in the Presidential Fleet Review at Norfolk, Virginia in April 1921, and in bombing tests on former German ships off the Virginia coast that summer. On 30 June 1922, she was placed out of commission at Philadelphia.
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