USS Dahlgren (DD-187)

The second Dahlgren (Destroyer No. 187) was laid down on 8 June 1918 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; launched on 20 November 1918, nine days after the Armistice; sponsored by Mrs. Josiah [Ulrika Dahlgren] Pierce, daughter of Rear Adm. Dahlgren; and commissioned on 6 January 1920, Cmdr. Leo Sahm in command.

Dahlgren--- redesignated as DD-187 on 17 July 1920-- - joined the Atlantic Fleet for exercises and training along the east coast, in Mexican waters, off Guantanamo Bay and in the Canal Zone. She took part in the Presidential Fleet Review at Norfolk in April 1921, and in aerial bombing tests on former German warships off the Virginia coast that summer. On 30 June 1922 she was placed out of commission at Philadelphia.

Recommissioned on 25 October 1932, Lt. Cmdr. Harry W. Van Hasseln in command, Dahlgren stood out of Norfolk on 7 November for San Diego, Calif., arriving on 30 November. Destroyer operations engaged her along the west coast until April 1934 when fleet exercises brought her to the Atlantic. In January 1935 she returned to San Diego. After a period of similar operations on the west coast, she sailed again for the east on 1 July 1937, and having rescued the crew of a U. S. Coast Guard seaplane during the passage, reached New York on 21 July 1937. She served in engineering experiments until 14 June 1940.

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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Dahlgren II (Destroyer No. 187)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.