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Cummings

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ClassMahan class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
HullDD-365
FateAfloat. At Pearl Harbor and not sunk. Survived the war.
Armament (class)Five 5-inch guns and two funnels. The count includes the two Dunlap ships.

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.

Cummings
USS Cummings (DD-365) underway at sea on 3 September 1944 (80-G-366997).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

USS Cummings (DD-365) was a Mahan-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is known by that class, that type, and the hull number 365. On 7 December 1941 she was at Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor found her in the harbor. She was not sunk. Through the attack she remained afloat in the harbor.

The fate of the hull is survival. Cummings was at Pearl Harbor and was not sunk, and she survived the war.

The wartime account of this destroyer rests on that morning and that outcome: a Mahan-class ship present in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, still afloat when the attack had passed, and a survivor when the war ended.

The pictures on this page are the originals.