Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Allen M. Sumner, [DD].
Builder: Federal Shipbuilding & Dry dock Company, New Jersey, USA.
Launch date: 26 March 1944.
Commission date: 31 may 1944.
Decommission date: 16 July 1973.
Displacement ( tons ): 2200 standard, 3500 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 112,5 x 12 x 6.
Main machinery: 2 x GE geared turbines ( 60000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 34.
Range ( miles ): 6000 at 15 knots.
Complement: 336 ( 17 officers ).
Guns: 3 x 2 127mm Mk38; 2 x 4 40mm, 2 x 2 40mm Bofors, 11 x 1 20mm Oerlikon.
Torpedoes: 2 x 5 533mm.
Radars: Air: AN/SPS-37; Surface: AN/SPS-10.
Sonars: AN/SQS-23.
Comment: D-701 John W. Weeks and D-698 Ault, the first two warships the U.S. Navy, who came into the Black Sea after the Second World War.
Year of visit the Black Sea: 1960