USS Sumner

USS Sumner

USS "Sumner" has been the name of four ships in the United States Navy. The destroyers were named after World War I Marine Corps Captain Allen M. Sumner. The survey ships, AGS-5 and T-AGS-61, were named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner.

* The first "Sumner" (DD-333) was a "Clemson"-class destroyer commissioned in 1921 and decommissioned in 1930.
* The second "Sumner" (AG-2/AGS-5) was originally the submarine tender "Bushnell", converted to a survey ship in World War II, and a participant in the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
* The third "Allen M. Sumner" (DD-692) was an "Sumner"-class destroyer commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1973.
* The fourth "Sumner" (T-AGS 61) is a "Pathfinder"-class oceanographic survey ship that became operational in 1997.

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* USS "Allen M. Sumner" (DD-692), the lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1973.


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