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U.S.S. MAHAN
(DLG-11)PAX PER MARIS POTESTATEM
(PEACE THROUGH SEA POWER
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USS MAHAN (DLG-11) - a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer
In Commission 1960 to 1993DLG-11 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DLG-11 Shellback Initiation | Add a DLG-11 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JUL | 1957 | - | Keel Date: 31 JUL 1957 at San Francisco Naval Shipyard | ||
FEB | 1959 | - | Shellback Initiation - 2 FEB 1959 - Pacific Ocean | ||
OCT | 1959 | - | Launch Date: 7 OCT 1959 | ||
JAN | 1960 | - | MAR | 1960 | Hawaii |
JAN | 1960 | - | JAN | 1966 | West Pac |
DEC | 1960 | - | Commissioned: 25 DEC 1960 | ||
JAN | 1962 | - | JAN | 1964 | West Pac |
JUN | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUN | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | West Pac |
JAN | 1963 | - | JAN | 1964 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1963 | - | MAR | 1964 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1963 | - | MAR | 1964 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1964 | - | JAN | 1966 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1964 | - | MAR | 1965 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1965 | - | MAR | 1966 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
NOV | 1965 | - | NOV | 1965 | replaced the USS King in Gulf of Tonkin |
SEP | 1966 | - | SEP | 1966 | Annapolis Midshipmen training cruise to Hawaii |
DEC | 1966 | - | JUL | 1967 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
DEC | 1967 | - | DEC | 1967 | West Pac |
JAN | 1968 | - | FEB | 1970 | emergency unrep for fuel Danang while on North SAR Station |
AUG | 1968 | - | SEP | 1970 | Home Port-Yokosuka Japan |
APR | 1969 | - | JUL | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1969 | - | DEC | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
NOV | 1969 | - | DEC | 1969 | West Pac |
FEB | 1970 | - | APR | 1970 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAY | 1970 | - | SEP | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 24 SEP 1970 - Pacific Ocean | ||
SEP | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 15 SEP 1970 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JAN | 1972 | - | JUN | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 22 MAR 1972 - Pacific Ocean | ||
MAR | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 22 MAR 1972 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUN | 1993 | - | Decommissioned: 15 JUN 1993 |
DLG-11 General Specifications
Class: Farragut-class guided missile destroyer
Complement: 21 Officers and 356 Enlisted
Displacement: 5800 tons
Length: 512.5 feet
Beam: 52 feet
Draft: 25 feet
Range: 4500Nautical Miles
Final Disposition: Disposed of by scrapping18 May 2004
USS MAHAN (DLG-11)
The third Mahan (DLG-11) was laid down 31 July 1957 by the San Francisco Naval Shipyard; launched 7 October 1969; sponsored by Mrs. H. P. Smith wife of Vice Adm. H. Page Smith; and commissioned 25 August 1960 Comdr. Wm. S. Busik in command.
During the first year and a half of her commissioned service Mahan's primary assignment was the testing and evaluation of her weapons systems ASROC and Terrier missiles. A unit of the Pacific Fleet's Cruiser-Destroyer Force she operated out of San Diego participating in local and fleet exercises off the west coast and in Hawaiian waters. Leaving San Diego 6 June 1962 she commenced her first western Pacific deployment. For the nest 6 months she cruised with other units of the 7th Fleet taking part in antisubmarine antiaircraft and amphibious exercises as well as making good will calls on ports in the Far East. Included in these latter visits was a stop at Saigon 24 to 28 October for the Republic of Vietnam's Independence anniversary celebrations.
1963 brought Mahan's entrance into the standard schedule of the Pacific Fleet beginning with a shipyard overhaul at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Following her yard period she conducted training exercises off the west coast She then departed San Die go 6 August for deployment in the western Pacific. In addition to assignments in Japanese and Philippine waters she spent on this tour a total of 4 weeks cruising off South Vietnam before returning to California 10 March 1964.
Remaining on the west coast until late 1965 the guided missile frigate underwent a 5-month overhaul 1 May to 20 October followed by test and training exercises and a demonstration of her antisubmarine warfare capabilities before members of the United S tates-Canadian Military Cooperation Committee 9 December. During the summer of 1965 she embarked midshipmen from the Naval Academy and various NROTC units for summer training. Departing San Diego 19 October she sailed to Pearl Harbor for antisubmarine t raining operations and then continued on to the western Pacific arriving at Subic Bay 22 November. Mahan operated with the 7th Fleet spending alternate monthly periods on patrol off Vietnam until returning to California in April 1966.
Upon arrival at San Diego 28 April Mahan continued her previous west coast activities local and fleet training operations missile firing exercises at the Pacific Missile Range and as during the summer of 1965 the training of midshipmen during June and July. August brought the installation of a helicopter flight deck.
The period 1 December 1966 through 4 June 1967 again saw Mahan In the western Pacific where
as before
she operated off Vietnam
patrolling and providing gunfire support in the fight to prevent the aggressive spread of communism. Arriving back at
San Diego 17 June
Mahan sailed on 31 July to represent the Navy at Seattle's annual Sea Fair. Following further coastal operations
she entered Long Beach Naval Shipyard 1 November for overhaul. This was completed late in April 1968 and
Mahan remained off the west coast until departing for the western Pacific in August. She remained as a part of the 7th Fleet into 1969.
[Note: The above USS MAHAN (DLG-11) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS MAHAN (DLG-11) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]