USS Farragut (DDG-37)
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| USS Farragut (DDG-37) | |
| Career (US) | Image:US Naval Jack.svg
<tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>January 27 1956</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Builder:</td><td>Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts</td></tr> |
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| Laid down: | June 3 1957 |
| Launched: | July 18 1958
<tr valign=top><td>Acquired:</td><td>December 8 1960</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>December 10 1960</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Decommissioned:</td><td>October 31 1989</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Struck:</td><td>November 20 1992</td></tr> |
| Status: | The Navy awarded a contract for the dismantling of this ship. |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,800 tons |
| Length: | 512.5 ft (156.2 m) |
| Beam: | 52 ft (15.8 m)
<tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>25 ft (7.6 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>4 1200psi boilers, 2 geared turbines</td></tr> |
| Speed: | 36.5 knots
<tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>4500nm @ 20 Knots</td></tr> |
| Complement: | 377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted)
<tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>AN/SPS-48E air-search radar, AN/SPS-49 air-search radar, AN/SPG-55B fire control radar, AN/SPG-53F gun fire control radar</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Electronic warfare and decoys:</td><td>AN/SLQ-32</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>one Mk 42 5-inch/54 (127mm/54) caliber gun, Mark 46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple mounts, one Mk 16 ASROC Missile Launcher, one Mk 10 Mod.0 Missile Launcher for Terrier / Standard (MR) Missiles, two Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Aircraft carried:</td><td>None</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Motto:</td><td>Damn the torpedoes!</td></tr> |
- This article is about one of five destroyers bearing the name "USS Farragut." For other uses of the name, see USS Farragut.
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. 26 September 2006 a contract to dismantle ex-Farragut was awarded to International Shipbreaking Limited of Brownsville, Texas.
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