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Ludlow (DM 10)

Call sign (1924):
Nan - Easy - Nan - Zed

ex-DD-112

Call sign (1919):
George - Tare - Boy - Dog

Wickes Class Destroyer/Stribling Class Minelayer:

Laid down 7 January 1918 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA

Launched 9 June 1918

Commissioned USS Ludlow, Destroyer No. 112, 23 December 1918

Redesignated as a Light Minelayer, (DM-10), 17 July 1920

Decommissioned 24 May 1930 at San Diego, CA

Struck from the Naval Register 18 November 1930

Sold for scrap 10 March 1931.

Specifications:

Displacement 1,191 t.

1921 - 1196 t.

Length 314' 4½"

Beam 30' 11¼"

Draft 9' 2"

Speed 34 kts.

1921 - 34.22 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 29,500shp Curtis geared turbines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description		Source
	37k	Namesake: *Augustus Crommelin Ludlow* (1 January 1792 – 13 June 1813) was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. *Ludlow* was born in Newburgh, New York. He was appointed midshipman April 2, 1804, and commissioned lieutenant June 3, 1810. *Ludlow* was second in command to Captain James Lawrence on the USS Chesapeake during the ship's engagement with HMS Shannon on June 1, 1813. It was to *Ludlow* that Lawrence said "Don't give up the ship." Both *Ludlow* and Lawrence were mortally wounded in that battle, and *Ludlow* died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, [Canada] on June 13, 1813. Lieutenant *Ludlow* is interred, together with Captain James Lawrence and Lawrence's widow, in the graveyard of Trinity Church in Manhattan, New York City		Tommy Trampp Photo added 2 March 2022
	118k	Underway during the middle or later 1920s, following conversion to a light minelayer. Despite having been designated DM-10 in July 1920, Ludlow still wears her old destroyer bow number ("112"), along with the Mine Force emblem Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 67606		Robert Hurst

Commanding Officers
01	CDR Martin Kellogg Metcalf, USN - USNA Class of 1903 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) and the Legion of Merit (1945) - Retired as Rear Admiral	23 December 1918
02	LCDR Henry Kent Hewitt, USN - USNA Class of 1907 Awarded two Navy Crosses (1918/1943), two Army Distinguished Service Medals (1942/1944), and two Navy Distinguished Service Medals (1942/1943) - Retired as Admiral	June 1919 - November 1919
03	CDR George Mastick Ravenscroft, USN - USNA Class of 1907 Awarded the Legion of Merit - Retired as Captain	November 1919
04	CDR Henry Atwood Orr, USN	1920
05	LCDR Reuben Lindsay Walker, USN - USNA Class of 1906 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - Retired as Commander	15 October 1921
06	CDR George Vandenburgh Stewart, USN - Awarded the Legion of Merit (1945) Retired as Captain	1 March 1924
07	CDR Harold Jones, USN	22 January 1926 - 1928

Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and Bill Gonyo

View the Ludlow (DM-10)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Website

Additional Resources and Websites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Ludlow (DD-112)

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