USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)

USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)



USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) in April 1959
Career (US)
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:
  • Design; 2,890 tons
  • Standard; 2,200
  • Full load; 3,315 tons
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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