USS Farragut (DD-300)
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| Launched: | 5 December 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1 March 1920 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 April 1930 |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1931 |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1100 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 5 in |
| Beam: | 31 ft 8 in |
| Draft: | 9 ft 3 in |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 35 kts |
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| Complement: | 95 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 4", 1 3" aa, 12 21" tt., |
The second USS Farragut (DD-300) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for David Farragut.
Farragut was laid down by the Union Iron Works Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco in California on 4 July 1918, launched on 21 November 1918 by Mrs. T. M. Potts and commissioned on 4 June 1920.
Farragut arrived at San Diego, California 3 July 1920, and was at once placed in reserve until 31 March 1922. Then she took up a regular training schedule along the west coast, from the Panama Canal Zone to Oregon. On 27 July 1923, at Seattle, Washington, she took part in a review taken by President Warren G. Harding, on his way home from a visit to Alaska. Returning to San Diego, she, with seven other ships, grounded on a foggy night on Honda Point, 8 September, in the Honda Point Disaster. Farragut alone was able to get clear with only minor damage, while the others remained stranded on the rocky shore.
In both 1924 and 1927, Farragut sailed into the Caribbean for fleet concentrations for maneuvers, in 1927 continuing north to visit New York, Newport, Rhode Island, and Norfolk, Virginia. Her first visit to the Hawaiian Islands was in the summer of 1925, during which she acted as station ship during the flight of seaplanes from the west coast to Hawaii. Again in the spring of 1928 Farragut exercised in the Hawaiians.
USS Farragut was decommissioned at San Diego on 1 April 1930, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 22 July 1930 and sold for scrap, 31 October 1930 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty.
See USS Farragut for other Navy ships of the same name.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.