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Cooper

Class	Allen M. Sumner class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-695
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny
Launched	1944-02-09
Commissioned	1944-03-27
Fate	Sunk. 3 December 1944 in Ormoc Bay, by the destroyer Take.
Armament (class)	Three twin 5-inch mounts and two funnels, on the Fletcher hull.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, DD-695. Sunk in Ormoc Bay on 3 December 1944. The destroyer Take is credited with the torpedo.

The pictures on this page are the originals.