Farragut class destroyer (1958)

The Farragut class was the second destroyer class of the United States Navy

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 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.

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 feet (16 m) beam and a top speed of 33 knots (65 km/h). Originally commissioned as guided missile frigates (DLG), they were redesignated as guided missile destroyer

Guided missile destroyer

A guided missile destroyer is a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Many are also equipped to carry out anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface operations. In the U.S...

s (DDG) under the fleet realignment

United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification

The United States Navy reclassified many of its surface vessels in 1975, changing terminology and hull classification symbols for cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts.- Classification prior to 1975 :...

 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.

Ships in class

Name	Number	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Home port	Status
Farragut USS Farragut (DDG-37) USS Farragut , named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, USN , was a Farragut-class guided missile frigate laid down as DLG-6 by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts on June 3, 1957, launched on July 15, 1958 by Mrs. H. D. Felt, wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and...	DDG-37	Bethlehem Steel Corporation	18 July 1958	10 December 1960
Luce USS Luce (DDG-38) The third USS Luce was a Farragut class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. It was named for Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce .-History:...	DDG-38	Bethlehem Steel Corporation	11 December 1958	20 May 1961
Macdonough USS Macdonough (DDG-39) USS MacDonough named for Commodore Thomas Macdonough was the 4th ship of the United States Navy to be named for him.The fourth Macdonough was projected as DL-8, but redesignated DLG-8 prior to keel laying by the Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, 16 April 1958;...	DDG-39	Bethlehem Steel Corporation	9 July 1959	4 November 1961
Coontz USS Coontz (DDG-40) USS Coontz was a Farragut-class destroyer leader/frigate in the United States Navy. She was named after Admiral Robert Coontz, the US Navy's second chief of naval operations....	DDG-40	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington...	6 December 1958	15 July 1960
King USS King (DDG-41) USS King was a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer leader. She was named for Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King USN ,...	DDG-41	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington...	6 December 1958	17 November 1960
Mahan USS Mahan (DDG-42) USS Mahan , named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan USN , was a Farragut-class guided missile frigate laid down as DLG-11 by the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on July 31, 1957, launched on October 7, 1959 by Mrs. H. P. Smith, wife of Vice Adm. H. Page Smith, and commissioned on December 25, 1960...	DDG-42	San Francisco Naval Shipyard San Francisco Naval Shipyard The San Francisco Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city...	October 7, 1959	December 25, 1960
Dahlgren USS Dahlgren (DDG-43) USS Dahlgren was a Farragut-class destroyer launched 16 March 1960 by Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and sponsored by Mrs. Katharine D. Cromwell, granddaughter of Rear Admiral John Adolphus Dahlgren. She was commissioned 8 April 1961, Commander C. E...	DDG-43	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia Naval Shipyard The Philadelphia Naval Business Center, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Navy Yard, was the first naval shipyard of the United States. The U.S. Navy reduced its activities there in the 1990s, and ended most of them on September 30, 1995...	16 March 1960	8 April 1961
William V. Pratt USS William V. Pratt (DDG-44) USS William V. Pratt was a Farragut-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1961 as DLG-13 and reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, designation DDG-44, in 1975. She was named to honor Admiral William Veazie Pratt, a President of the Naval War...	DDG-44	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia Naval Shipyard The Philadelphia Naval Business Center, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Navy Yard, was the first naval shipyard of the United States. The U.S. Navy reduced its activities there in the 1990s, and ended most of them on September 30, 1995...	6 March 1960	4 November 1961
Dewey USS Dewey (DDG-45) USS Dewey was a ship in the United States Naval Service. She was named to honor George Dewey, the United States' only Admiral of the Navy. She was the third of four ships whose namesake was Admiral Dewey. The ship's motto was The First and Finest.-Construction and design:Dewey was laid down 10...	DDG-45	Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works is a major American shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, United States. Since its founding in 1884 , BIW has built private, commercial and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy...	30 November 1958	7 December 1959
Preble USS Preble (DDG-46) USS Preble was a destroyer in the United States Naval Service. She was the fifth ship named to honor after Commodore Edward Preble . Preble was laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 16 December 1957. She was launched 23 May 1959 and sponsored by Mrs. Ralph E. Wilson...	DDG-46	Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works is a major American shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, United States. Since its founding in 1884 , BIW has built private, commercial and military vessels, most of which have been ordered by the United States Navy...	23 May 1959	9 May 1960

See also

• Farragut-class destroyer (1934)
  Farragut class destroyer (1934)
  The Farragut-class destroyers were a class of eight 1,365-ton destroyers in the United States Navy.Following provisions of the London Naval Treaty of 1930, the ships were laid down between 1932 and completed by 1935...
  
  
• List of United States Navy destroyer leaders

External links

• Farragut-class frigates at Destroyer History Foundation