U.S.S. Allen M. Sumner DD-692
1950 Log Book

• January 6, 1950 - First OPS of the new year with DesDiv 202 - Sumner, Moale, Ingraham and R. K. Huntington
• January 24, 1950 - DesDiv 202 out chasing the USS Piper (SS409)
• January 30, 1950 - More bubbleheads to chase, this time USS Sea Leopard (SS483)
• February 6, 1950 - Time to go out and chase the Sea Leopard some more
• February 20, 1950 - Into Portsmouth for a little upkeep
• March 8, 1950 - War games with the USS Missouri (BB63) and support landings on Vieques
• March 15, 1950 - Stop at GITMO with the Dutch Royal Navy
• April 12, 1950 - Oh well, lets go see if we can find the Sea Leopard this time
• April 19, 1950 - More bubbleheads to chase but this time its USS Tigrone
• April 26, 1950 - Now its time to play with the brown shoes on the USS Philippine Sea
• May 9, 1950 - Here comes that darn Sea Leopard again, we gotta sink that sewer pipe
• June 1, 1950 - Enter Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for overhaul
• July 12, 1950 - Into the drydock and sit on keel blocks for a while
• July 29, 1950 - Out of the drydock after fixing a leak in the starboard shaft alley
• September 20, 1950 - Finally out of the shipyard and headed home to the C&E Piers
• September 28, 1950 - Out with the Division again so we don't get rusty
• October 5, 1950 - A quick run into the drydock in Portsmouth to check everything out
• October 9, 1950 - And once again we are in the tropical paradise of GITMO
• October 21, 1950 - Saturday off so lets go to Kingston, Jamaica
• November 3, 1950 - A little gunfire practice at Culebra
• November 12, 1950 - Back home to Norfolk for the last time this year
• November 26, 1950 - A very rough crossing and our shipmate DC2 Norman Brisette is lost
• November 28, 1950 - We forgot something in Norfolk, so we get some from the USS Pawcatuck
• December 4, 1950 - Time for service with the Sixth Fleet at Gibraltar
• December 11, 1950 - A few days of OPS out of Augusta Bay, Sicily
• December 20, 1950 - Christmas time so we pull into the Old World at Naples
• and we spent the rest of the year running on day trips to Rome