USS Sumner
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Template:Italic title prefixed Sumner has been the name of four ships in the United States Navy. The destroyers, DD-333 and DD-692, were named after World War I Marine Corps Captain Allen Melancthon Sumner. The survey ships, AGS-5 and T-AGS-61, were named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner.
- The first Template:USS was a Template:Sclass commissioned in 1921 and decommissioned in 1930.
- The second Template:USS was originally the submarine tender Bushnell; commissioned in 1915, converted to a survey ship in World War II, and a participant in the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll; decommissioned in 1946.
- The third Template:USS, the lead ship of her class, was an Template:Sclass commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1973.
- The fourth Template:USNS is a Template:Sclass that became operational in 1997.