Farragut class destroyer (1958)
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 USS Farragut (DDG-37) |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Farragut class destroyer |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Forrest Sherman class destroyer |
| Succeeded by: | Charles F. Adams class destroyer |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Retired: | 10 |
| Preserved: | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,167 tons (standard) 5,648 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 512.5 ft (156.3m) |
| Beam: | 52.3 ft (15m) |
| Draught: | 17.8 ft (5.3m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft 2 Allis Chalmers Turbines 4 boilers 85,000 shp |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 360 |
| Armament: | 1x Mark 13 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 a destroyer class of the United States Navy and the second class of destroyer named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. It is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class by some sources, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided missile ship while the previous three ships were designed as all gun units and converted later.[1]
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 ships renumbered under the realignment, with the first unit changing from DLG-6 to DDG-37 and all subsequent vessels being renumbered upwards in order.
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[edit] List of Farragut class destroyers
- USS Farragut (DDG-37)
- USS Luce (DDG-38)
- USS Macdonough (DDG-39)
- USS Coontz (DDG-40)
- USS King (DDG-41)
- USS Mahan (DDG-42)
- USS Dahlgren (DDG-43)
- USS William V. Pratt (DDG-44)
- USS Dewey (DDG-45)
- USS Preble (DDG-46)
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In the 1965 Cold War thriller "The Bedford Incident", starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier and Martin Balsam, the role of the fictional USS Bedford was played by a Farragut-class destroyer operating in the North Atlantic hunting Soviet submarines.
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