USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)

History
USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) in April 1959
United States
Name:	Allen M. Sumner
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.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
Displacement:	Design; 2,890 tons Standard; 2,200 Full load; 3,315 tons
Length:	376 ft 6 in (114.76 m)
Beam:	40 ft (12 m)
Draft:	15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Propulsion:	60,000 shp (45,000 kW); 2 propellers
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range:	6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
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), 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.

Allen M. Sumner was laid down on 7 July 1943 at Kearny, New Jersey, 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.

The destroyer was fitted out at the New York Navy Yard until 3 March when she got underway for shakedown training in the waters around Bermuda. Allen M. Sumner returned to New York on 8 April and commenced post-shakedown availability. Repairs were completed on 3 May, and the warship stood out of New York bound for Norfolk, Virginia. She arrived there the following day and began two months of duty as a training platform for destroyer nucleus crews. The warship headed north on 5 July and arrived back at New York the next day. Following a five-week availability at the navy yard there, Allen M. Sumner put to sea on 12 August, bound ultimately for the Pacific. Along the way, she conducted antisubmarine warfare and antiair warfare exercises, stopped briefly at Norfolk, and transited the Panama Canal on 29 August. The destroyer stayed overnight at San Diego on 7 and 8 September before continuing on to Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 14 September and began five weeks of exercises in the Hawaiian operating area.

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