USS Sumner (AGS-5)
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| 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 |
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| Struck: | 19 September 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
3 battle stars (WWII) |
| 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 |
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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), in honor of David Bushnell, the inventor of the first American submarine.
Bushnell was launched 9 February 1915 by Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company, Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Miss Esculine Warwick Bushnell great-grandniece of David Bushnell; and commissioned 24 November 1915, Lieutenant D. F. Boyd in command.
She was assigned to the Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, as tender to L-class submarines in January 1916 and arrived on the east coast in February. Early in 1917 she escorted submarines to the Azores and in December accompanied Submarine Division 5 to Ireland, arriving at Queenstown 27 January 1918. Bushnell acted as tender for submarines operating off Queenstown until the end of World War I. She later escorted captured German submarines to Scotland, Canada, and the United States.
In September 1920 she assisted in salvage operations on the submarine USS S-5 (SS-110) sunk off the Delaware Capes.
Up until August 1931, Sumner cruised with various Submarine Divisions on the Atlantic coast, in the Caribbean, on the west coast, and in the Hawaiian Islands. Bushnell arrived at San Diego 3 September 1931 and reported for duty with the Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, with whom she operated until 1937. She towed the sailing frigate USS Constitution from San Diego to the Panama Canal Zone during March and April 1934 and in February 1935 assisted in the search for survivors of the dirigible USS Macon (ZRS-5) which crashed off San Diego.
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