USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)
USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) in April 1959 |
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| Career (US) | |
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| Namesake: | Allen Melancthon Sumner |
| Ordered: | 7 August 1942 |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down: | 7 July 1943 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 26 January 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 August 1973 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1973 |
| Motto: | Sui Generis |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to the Union Minerals & Alloy Corp. on 16 October 1974 for $163,132.00. |
| Notes: | Passed from Navy control 6 December 1974 at 0935 hours |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Allen M. Sumner class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
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| Length: | 376 ft 6 in (114.8 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft 8 in (4.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
| Range: | 6500 nmi (12,000 km) @ 15 kt (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 calibre guns, 12 × 40 mm AA guns, 11 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), the original Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Allen Melancthon Sumner, a USMC captain, who was killed in action during World War I.
Allen M. Sumner was laid down on 7 July 1943 at Kearny, N. J., by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 15 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Allen M. Sumner, Captain Sumner's widow; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 26 January 1944, Commander Norman J. Sampson in command.
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Famous quotes containing the word sumner:
“through the Sumner Tunnel,
trunk by trunk through its sulphurous walls,
tile by tile like a men’s urinal,
slipping through
like somebody else’s package.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)