History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Sumner |
Builder | Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company, Seattle, Washington |
Launched | 9 February 1915 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1915 as USS Bushnell (AS-2) |
Decommissioned | 13 September 1946 |
Renamed | Sumner, 23 August 1940 |
Reclassified |
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Stricken | 19 September 1946 |
Honours and awards | 3 battle stars (WWII) |
Fate | Scrapped 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Survey ship |
Displacement | 3,142 long tons (3,192 t) |
Length | 350 ft 6 in (106.83 m) |
Beam | 45 ft 8 in (13.92 m) |
Draft | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 151 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Sumner (AG-32/AGS-5) was a survey ship in the United States Navy. She was named in honor of Thomas Sumner. She was originally commissioned as a submarine tender as USS Bushnell (AS-2/AG-32), in honor of David Bushnell, the inventor of the first American submarine.