United States Navy — Destroyer class
Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
Allen M. Sumner class
The class in numbers
- 70 Planned
- 58 Completed
- 12 Cancelled
- 4 Lost
- 724 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- United States Navy 53
Brazilian Navy 1 - In commission
- 1943–75 (USN)
- Preceded by
- Fletcher-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Gearing-class destroyer
- Operators
- United States, Brazil, Colombia, Iran
- Builders
- Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (18)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (14)
- Bethlehem
- Staten Island, NY (10)
- San Francisco, CA (6)
- San Pedro, CA (5)
- Todd Pacific Seattle, WA (5)
- Subclasses
- Robert H. Smith-class destroyer, Daegu-class destroyer, Seguí-class destroyer, Mato Grosso-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,220 long tons (2,256 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,515 long tons (3,571 t)
- Length
- 114.6 m (376 ft) OA
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 336
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 6 × 5 in/38 cal guns (127 mm) (in 3 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts)
- 12 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns (2 × 4 & 2 × 2)
- 11 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 2 × Depth charge racks
- 6 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Typical by 1950:
- 6 × 5 in/38 cal guns (127 mm) (in 3 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts)
- 6 × 3 in/50 cal guns (76 mm) (2 × 2, 2 × 1)
- 2 × Hedgehog ASW weapons
- 1 × Depth charge rack
- 6 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- Typical after FRAM II: (1960–65)
- 6 × 5 in/38 cal guns (127 mm) (in 3 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts)
- 2 × triple Mark 32 torpedo tubes for Mark 44 torpedoes
- 2 × single 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for Mark 37 torpedoes
- 1 × Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH)
- Variable Depth Sonar (VDS)
Roster
Holding 54 of the 58 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Alfred A. Cunningham | 1944 | Target 1979 | |
| USS Allen M. Sumner | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Ault | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Barton (DD-722) | DD-722 | 1943 | Target 1969 |
| USS Blue (DD-744) | DD-744 | 1944 | Target 1977 |
| USS Borie (DD-704) | DD-704 | 1944 | Scrapped 1984 |
| USS Bristol (DD-857) | DD-857 | 1945 | Scrapped |
| USS Brush | DD-745 | 1944 | Scrapped |
| USS Charles S. Sperry | 1944 | Scrapped 1990 | |
| USS Collett | DD-730 | 1944 | Sunk 1988 |
| USS Compton | 1944 | Scrapped 1990 | |
| USS Cooper | 1944 | Sunk 1944 | |
| USS De Haven (DD-727) | DD-727 | 1944 | Scrapped 1993 |
| USS Douglas H. Fox | DD-17 | 1944 | Scuttled 1998 |
| USS Drexler | 1944 | Sunk 1945 | |
| USS English | DD-696 | 1944 | Target 2003 |
| USS Frank E. Evans | 1945 | Target 1969 | |
| USS Gainard | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Hank | 1944 | Scrapped 1983 | |
| USS Harlan R. Dickson | 1945 | Scrapped 1973 | |
| USS Harry E. Hubbard | 1944 | Scrapped 1970 | |
| USS Haynsworth | DD-700 | 1944 | Sunk 2001 |
| USS Hugh Purvis | 1945 | Scrapped 1994 | |
| USS Hugh W. Hadley | 1944 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Hyman | 1944 | Scrapped 1970 | |
| USS Ingraham (DD-694) | DD-694 | 1944 | Target 2001 |
| USS James C. Owens | 1945 | Scrapped | |
| USS John A. Bole | DD-755 | 1945 | 1974 |
| USS John R. Pierce | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS John W. Weeks | 1944 | Target 1970 | |
| USS Laffey (DD-724) | DD-724 | 1944 | Preserved |
| USS Lofberg | DD-759 | 1945 | 1974 |
| USS Lowry | 1944 | Scrapped 1996 | |
| USS Lyman K. Swenson | DD-729 | 1944 | 1974 |
| USS Maddox (DD-731) | DD-731 | 1944 | Scrapped 1985 |
| USS Mannert L. Abele | 1944 | Sunk 1945 | |
| USS Mansfield | 1944 | Transferred 1974 | |
| USS Massey | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 | |
| USS Meredith (DD-726) | DD-726 | 1944 | Scrapped 1944 |
| USS Moale | 1944 | Scrapped | |
| USS O’Brien (DD-725) | DD-725 | 1944 | Target 1972 |
| USS Purdy | 1944 | Scrapped | |
| USS Putnam (DD-757) | DD-757 | 1944 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Robert K. Huntington | 1945 | Scrapped 1981 | |
| USS Samuel N. Moore | DD-747 | 1944 | Target |
| USS Soley | 1944 | Disposed 1970 | |
| USS Stormes | DDG-9 | 1945 | Scrapped 1994 |
| USS Strong (DD-758) | DD-758 | 1945 | Scrapped 1997 |
| USS Taussig | DD-746 | 1944 | Scrapped 2013 |
| USS Waldron | DD-699 | 1944 | Scrapped 1986 |
| USS Walke (DD-723) | DD-723 | 1944 | Scrapped 1975 |
| USS Wallace L. Lind | DD-703 | 1944 | Scrapped 1994 |
| USS Willard Keith (DD-775) | DD-775 | 1944 | Scrapped 1977 |
| USS Zellars | DD-777 | 1944 | Scrapped 1994 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.