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USS LUDLOW DD-112

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Hull Number: DD-112

Launch Date: 07/09/1918

Commissioned Date: 12/23/1918

Decommissioned Date: 05/24/1930

Call Sign: NENZ

Other Designations: DM-10


Class: LITTLE

LITTLE Class

Data for USS Little (DD-79) as of 1921

Length Overall: 314’ 4 1/2"

Beam: 31' 8"

Draft: 9’ 2"

Standard Displacement: 1,191 tons

Full Load Displacement: 1,284 tons

Armament:

Four 4″/50 caliber guns
One 3″/23 caliber anti-aircraft gun
Four 21″ triple torpedo tubes

Complement:

8 Officers
8 Chief Petty Officers
106 Enlisted

Propulsion:

4 Boilers
2 Curtis Geared Turbines: 27,180 horsepower

Highest speed on trials: 34.7 knots

Namesake: AUGUSTUS C. LUDLOW

AUGUSTUS C. LUDLOW

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, February 2016

The second and third Ludlows were named for Augustus C. Ludlow, born Newburgh, N.Y., 1 January 1792. He was appointed midshipment 2 April 1804 and commissioned Lieutenant 3 June 1810. Second in command to Capt. James Lawrence in Chesapeake, he was, like his captain, mortally wounded in their ship’s engagement with HMS Shannon 1 June 1813, and died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 13 June.


Disposition:

Stricken 11/18/1930. Scrapped 1931


Ship History

USS LUDLOW DD-112 Ship History

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, February 2016

The second Ludlow (Destroyer No. 112) was laid down 7 January 1918 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.; launched 9 June 1918; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Ludlow Chrystie, a descendant of Lieutenant Ludlow; and commissioned 23 December 1918, Comdr. M. K. Metcalf in command.

Following west coast shakedown, Ludlow embarked on the continuous training program which Is a hallmark of the U.S. Navy. On 17 July 1920 she was redesignated DM-10. A change of home ports followed 19 January 1921 when she arrived Pearl Harbor for 8 years with Mine Squadron 2, Fleet Base Force.

Ludlow joined in gunnery practice, mining operations, antisubmarine training, and fleet battle problems in the Hawaiian Islands and off the west coast, and in 1929 trained Naval Reserves. Leaving Pearl Harbor 15 November 1929, she arrived San Diego the 26th, and there decommissioned 24 May 1930. Struck from the Navy list 18 November, she was scrapped and her metal sold 19 March 1931.