USS Cummings, a 1020-ton Cassin class destroyer, was built at Bath, Maine. Commissioned in mid-September 1913, she served along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean Sea area during the next three and a half years. In May 1917, two months after the United States entered World War I, Cummings steamed across the Atlantic to Queenstown, Ireland. Based there for the remainder of the conflict, she was employed on escort and anti-submarine patrol duties in the waters off the western British Isles and France. In December she was part of the U.S. Navy force that escorted President Wilson, embarked on the transport George Washington, as he arrived at the Port of Brest to participate in the post-war peace conference.
Cummings returned to the U.S. late in 1918 to take up peacetime activities, again operating off the eastern U.S. and in the Caribbean. When the Navy implemented its hull number system in July 1920, she was designated DD-44. Kept in reserve from mid-1919 into 1921, the destroyer was again active beginning in March 1921. Cummings was decommissioned in June 1922 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Two years later she was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard, for which she performed Prohibition enforcement missions as USCGC Cummings (CG-3) until returned to the Navy in May 1932. She was stricken from the list of Navy ships in July 1934 and sold for scrapping in August of that year.
USS Cummings was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Andrew B. Cummings (1830-1863), who lost his life as a result of wounds received on board USS Richmond in March 1863.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44, later DD-44).
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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. Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 470 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103522 USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) At anchor, circa 1916. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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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. Online Image: 52KB; 450 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 55533 USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44) Underway at low speed on 26 February 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 53KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103514-A USS Cummings (DD-44) In the North River off New York City, 20 May 1921. Cropped from NH 103514, a panoramic photograph by Himmel and Tyner, New York. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103523 USCGC Cummings (CG-3) On patrol, circa 1924-1932, while on loan from the Navy to the U.S. Coast Guard. This ship was originally USS Cummings (Destroyer # 44). Courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps Museum. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 76421 U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1916-1917 Second section from right (of six) of a panoramic photograph taken from the Naval Station radio tower. Among the ships present are a collier (left distance), a destroyer tender (left center) and twelve destroyers, including (listed left to right, by the position of sterns, with each ship's bow number given): Wadsworth (60), Cassin (43), Winslow (53), Ericsson (56), McDougal (54), Fanning (37), Cummings (44), Warrington (30), O'Brien (51), Patterson (36), Jenkins (42) and Jarvis (38). See Photo # s NH 76415 and NH 76416 for a reproduction of the entire original panoramic image. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Donation of MMC Jesse Forton, USN (Retired), 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 515 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103514 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): Note what appears to be a yacht club in the lower left. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 1200 x 340 pixels NOTE: Photo #s NH 103514-A; NH 103514-B; NH 103514-C; NH 103514-D; NH 103514-E; NH 103514-F and NH 103514-G are cropped from the original print for NH 103514. |
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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. Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 28 February 2006
Link added 19 June 2006