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DD-44 USS CUMMINGS

CLASS - CASSIN As Built.
Displacement 1,072 Tons, Dimensions, 305' 3" (oa) x 31' 2" x 10' 6" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 8 x 18" tt..
Machinery, 16,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines With Triple Expansion Cruising Engines, 2 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 98.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath Me. on May 21 1912.
Launched August 6 1913 and commissioned September 19 1913.
Cummings was decommissioned at Philadelphia June 23 1922
and berthed with the reserve fleet until loaned to the Coast Guard As
CG-3 on June 7 1924 and was returned May 23 1932.Cummings lost
her name to new construction July 1 1933.
Stricken July 5 1934.
Fate Sold August 22 1934 and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
70k	Photo #: NH 88504, Lieutenant Commander Andrew B. Cummings, USN, (1830-1863) photograph from a Carte de Visite by Augustus Morand, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1862. Courtesy of Dr. Walter B. LaBerge, Under Secretary of the Army, 1978. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
100k	Photo #: NH 85774, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) and USS Cassin (Destroyer # 43) fitting out at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, in 1913. Halftone reproduction, published on a color-tinted postal card. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
100k	Photo #: NH 103522, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) at anchor, circa 1916. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Joe Radigan
47k	Photo #: NH 95197, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) underway, prior to World War I. Courtesy of Jack L. Howland, 1983. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
50k	Photo #: NH 77907, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) making smoke while underway, circa 1916. Photographed by Waterman. The original image was printed on postal card ("AZO") stock. Collection of Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor, USN, 1962. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
54k	Photo #: NH 55533, USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) underway at low speed on 26 February 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
50k	Photo #: NH 103514-A, USS Cummings (DD-44) in the North River off New York City, 20 May 1921. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.	Tony Cowart
86k	Destroyer Squadron 14 in the North River, off New York City, 20 May 1921. Panoramic photograph by Himmel and Tyner, New York. U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to right): USS Cummings (DD-44); USS Wainright (DD-62); USS Parker (DD-48); USS Balch (DD-50); USS McDougal (DD-54); USS Ericsson (DD-56) and USS Dixie (AD-1), squadron flagship. Note what appears to be a yacht club in the lower left (Photo No NH 103514).	Robert Hurst
40k	On Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.	Mike Green

USS CUMMINGS DD-44 History
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