USN
Wickes Class Destroyer

Construction
Launched 11 May 1918 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Miss Evelyn H. Jackson, relative of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and commissioned at Norfolk 29 November 1918, Comdr. H. J. Abbett in command

Ship History
Served in World War I, later converted to a minelayer in World War II. She was named for two brothers, Lt. Peter Gamble and Lt. Col. John M. Gamble.

The Gamble laid the minefields that sank the SS President Coolidge and USS Tucker at Santo in Vanuatu.

On August 29, 1942 the Gamble dropped depth charges that sank the submarine I-123 sixty miles east of Savo.

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