Photo by David L. Brown.

Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Allen M. Sumner, [DD].

Builder: Bethlehem Steel Corporation, USA.
Launch date: 21 May 1944.
Commission date: 21 June 1944.
Decommission date: 12 August 1970.

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.

Radar: Air: AN/SPS-37; Surface: AN/SPS-10.
Sonar: AN/SQS-23.
Comment: 701 John W. Weeks and 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