USS Mahan explained

The name Mahan was assigned to the following four United States Navy ships, in honor of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval historian and theorist on sea power.

• USS Mahan (DD-102/DM-7): (DD-102) was a commissioned in 1918, and converted to the light minelayer DM-7 in 1920. She was decommissioned in 1930, and sold for scrap in 1931.
• was the lead ship of the ; commissioned in 1936, disabled by Japanese aircraft and scuttled by friendly fire in 1944.
• USS Mahan (DLG-11/DDG-42): (DLG-11) was commissioned as a guided missile frigate in 1960, and reclassified as the guided missile destroyer (DDG-42) in 1975. She was decommissioned in 1993 and completely dismantled in 2004.
• is an commissioned in 1998 and still in service