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USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), was the lead ship of her class of destroyers. The ship was named for Allen Melancthon Sumner , a United States Marine Corps captain , who was killed in action during World War I .
The Allen M. Sumner design was extended 14 feet (4.3 m) amidships to become the Gearing class, which was produced in larger numbers but did not see significant service in World War II. Completed in 1943–45, four Sumners were lost in the war and two were damaged so badly they were scrapped, but the surviving ships served in the US Navy into ...
USS Allen M. Sumner; USS Ault; B. USS Barton (DD-722) USS Beatty (DD-756) USS Blue (DD-744) USS Borie (DD-704) USS Bristol (DD-857) USS Brush; USS Buck (DD-761) C.
The destroyers, DD-333 and DD-692, were named after World War I Marine Corps Captain Allen Melancthon Sumner. The survey ships, AGS-5 and T-AGS-61, were named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner. The first USS Sumner (DD-333) was a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1921 and decommissioned in 1930.
The USS Sumner (DD-333) was a ship of the United States Navy (USN) during the interwar period. During World War II, Sumner was honoured as the namesake of the newly developed Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers, a class of 58 destroyers, of which the lead ship was USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692).
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with A and B. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
USS Hyman (DD-732), was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy. Namesake. Willford Milton Hyman was born on 16 August 1901 in Pueblo, ...