Farragut class destroyer (1958)
 USS Farragut (DDG-37) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Farragut class destroyer |
| Builders: | Bethlehem Steel Quincy Puget Sound Naval Shipyard San Francisco Naval Shipyard Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Bath Iron Works |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Forrest Sherman-class destroyer |
| Succeeded by: | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
| Built: | 1957 – 1961 |
| In commission: | 1959 – 1993 |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Retired: | 10 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,167 tons (standard) 5,648 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 512.5 ft (156.2 m) |
| Beam: | 52.3 ft (16 m) |
| Draught: | 17.8 ft (5.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft 2 Allis-Chalmers turbines 4 boilers 85,000 shp (63,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 360 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
1 AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR[1] 1 AN/SPS-37 air search RADAR[1] 1 AN/SPS-39 3D air search RADAR[1] 1 AN/SPG-53 gun fire control RADAR[1][2] 2 AN/SPG-55 Terrier fire control RADAR[1][3] AN/SQS-23 SONAR[4] |
| Armament: | 1x Mark 10 Launcher Terrier SAM 1x 5in (127 mm) 1x ASROC Launcher 6x 12.8in (324 mm) ASW TT 8x Boeing Harpoon SSM (After third update) |
The Farragut class was the second destroyer class of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. The class is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided missile ship, whereas the previous three ships were designed as all-gun units and converted later.[5]
Ten Farragut-class ships were ordered between 1955 and 1957. Each ship displaced 5,800 tons under full load with a length of 512 feet (156 m), a 52-foot (16 m) beam and a top speed of 33 knots (61 km/h). Originally commissioned as guided missile frigates (DLG), they were redesignated as guided missile destroyers (DDG) under the fleet realignment in 1975. They were the only redesignated ships to be renumbered as well as under the realignment, with the first unit changing from DLG-6 to DDG-37 and all subsequent vessels being renumbered upwards in order.
All ships of the class were decommissioned between 1989 and 1994 and subsequently scrapped.
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[edit] Ships in class
| Name | Number | Builder | Launched | Commissioned | Home port | Status |
| Farragut | DDG-37 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 18 July 1958 | 10 December 1960 | ||
| Luce | DDG-38 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 11 December 1958 | 20 May 1961 | ||
| Macdonough | DDG-39 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 9 July 1959 | 4 November 1961 | ||
| Coontz | DDG-40 | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard | 6 December 1958 | 15 July 1960 | ||
| King | DDG-41 | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard | 6 December 1958 | 17 November 1960 | ||
| Mahan | DDG-42 | San Francisco Naval Shipyard | October 7, 1959 | December 25, 1960 | ||
| Dahlgren | DDG-43 | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | 16 March 1960 | 8 April 1961 | ||
| William V. Pratt | DDG-44 | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | 6 March 1960 | 4 November 1961 | ||
| Dewey | DDG-45 | Bath Iron Works | 30 November 1958 | 7 December 1959 | ||
| Preble | DDG-46 | Bath Iron Works | 23 May 1959 | 9 May 1960 |
[edit] See also
Media related to Farragut class destroyers (1958) at Wikimedia Commons
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Blackman, Raymond V. B. Jane's Fighting Ships (1970/71) p.432
- ^ Polmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Shipboard Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings December 1978 p.145
- ^ Polmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Shipboard Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings December 1978 p.144
- ^ Polmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Sonars, Part 1" United States Naval Institute Proceedings July 1981 p.119
- ^ DLG 6 / DDG-37 Farragut / DLG 9 Coontz
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