USS Cummings (DD-44)

USS Cummings (DD-44) at anchor, circa 1916.
History
United States
Name:	Cummings
Namesake:	Lieutenant commander Andrew Boyd Cummings
Builder:	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Cost:	$776,910.48
Laid down:	21 May 1912
Launched:	6 August 1913
Sponsored by:	Mrs. H. Beates, Jr., niece of Lieutenant Commander Cummings
Commissioned:	19 September 1913
Decommissioned:	23 June 1922
Struck:	5 July 1934
Identification:	Hull symbol:DD-44 Code letters:NIL
Fate:	transferred to the United States Coast Guard, 7 June 1924
Status:	sold for scrapping, 22 August 1934
Notes:	Cummings lost her name to new construction 1 July 1933
USCG Cummings (CG-3) on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era.
United States
Name:	Cummings
Acquired:	6 June 1924
Commissioned:	15 May 1925
Decommissioned:	30 April 1932
Identification:	Hull symbol:CG-3
Fate:	transferred back to the United States Navy, 23 May 1932
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cassin-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,020 long tons (1,040 t)
Length:	305 ft 3 in (93.04 m)
Beam:	31 ft 2 in (9.50 m)
Draft:	9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) (mean)
Installed power:	oil fired boilers 16,000 ihp (12,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × Direct Drive Turbines With Triple Expansion Cruising Engines 2 × shafts
Speed:	29.5 kn (33.9 mph; 54.6 km/h) 30.57 kn (35.18 mph; 56.62 km/h) (Speed on Trial)
Complement:	5 officers 96 enlisted (USN) 6 officers, 82 enlisted (USCG)
Armament:	USN: 4 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 caliber guns 8 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes (4 × 2) USCG: 3 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 cal guns 1 × 1-pdr

The first USS Cummings (DD-44) was a Cassin-class destroyer used by the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard, where she was designated CG-3. She was named for Lieutenant Commander Andrew Boyd Cummings.

Cummings was launched on 6 August 1913 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. H. Beates, Jr., niece of Lieutenant Commander Cummings; and commissioned on 19 September 1913, Lieutenant Commander A. Crenshaw in command.

Departing Boston in November 1913, Cummings cruised along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean until the following June, when she joined the Neutrality Patrol and cruised off the coast until the United States entered into World War I.

Arriving at New York Navy Yard on 12 May 1917 to be outfitted for foreign service, Cummings sailed on 15 May, reaching the Destroyer Base, Queenstown, Ireland on 26 May. She was commanded by the future admiral, Henry Kent Hewitt. She served in the cross-channel escort service under Commander, US Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, and also conducted anti-submarine patrols off the southern Irish coast, making contact in 14 encounters. The ship continued to serve on escort assignments off the coast of France after the war. She was one of the escort ships for George Washington, carrying President Woodrow Wilson to Brest, France.