USS Farragut (DDG-37)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | January 27, 1956 |
| Laid down: | June 3, 1957 |
| Launched: | July 18, 1958 |
| Commissioned: | December 10, 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | October 31, 1989 |
| Fate: | Awaiting disposal |
| Struck: | November 20, 1992 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,800 tons |
| Length: | 512.5 ft. |
| Beam: | 52 ft. |
| Draught: | 25 ft. |
| Propulsion: | 4 1200psi boilers, 2 geared turbines |
| Speed: | 33 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted) |
| Armament: | one Mk 42 5-inch/54 caliber gun, Mk 46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple mounts, one Mk 16 ASROC Missile Launcher, one Mk 10 Mod.0 Missile Launcher for Standard (MR) Missiles, two Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers |
| Aircraft: | None |
| Motto: | Damn the torpedoes! |
USS Farragut (DDG-37), named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut USN (1801-1870), was a Farragut-class guided missile frigate (destroyer leader) laid down as DLG-6 by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy in Massachusetts on 3 June 1957, launched on 15 July 1958 by Mrs. H. D. Felt, wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and commissioned on 10 December 1960. Farragut was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer on 30 June 1975 and designated DDG-37. USS Farragut was decommissioned on 31 October 1989, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold for scrap on 16 December 1994.