USS Sumner (AGS-5)

History
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	AG-32 (Miscellaneous Auxiliary), 25 July 1940; AGS-5 (Survey Ship), 1 December 1943;
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	4 × 5 in (130 mm) guns; 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes;

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.

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