USS Sumner

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USS Sumner has been the name of three ships in the United States Navy. The destroyer was named after World War I Marine Corps Captain Allen M. Sumner. The survey ship, AGS-5, was named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner. T-AGS-61 was named to commemorate her predeccessor, AGS-5, as well as Captain Thomas Sumner.

• The first Sumner (DD-333) was a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1921 and decommissioned in 1930.
• The second Sumner (AG-2/AGS-5) was originally the submarine tender Bushnell, converted to a survey ship in World War II, and a participant in the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
• The third Sumner (T-AGS-61) is a Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship that became operational in 1997.

See also

• USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), the lead ship of her class, commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1973.

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