USS Farragut (DDG-37)

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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.


Farragut-class destroyer (1958)
Farragut | Luce | Macdonough | Coontz | King | Mahan | Dahlgren | William V. Pratt | Dewey | Preble

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