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Uss Farragut (Ddg-37) | colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USN Jack | | rdered: | January 27, 1956 | | aid down: | June 3, 1957 | | aunched: | July 18, 1958 | | ommissioned: | December 10, 1960 | | ecommissioned: | October 31, 1989 | | ate: | Awaiting disposal | | truck: | November 20, 1992 | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 5,800 tons | | ength: | 512.5 ft. | | eam: | 52 ft. | | raught: | 25 ft. | | ropulsion: | 4 1200psi boilers, 2 geared turbines | | peed: | 33 knots | | ange: | | | omplement: | 377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted) | | rmament: | 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 | | ircraft: | None | | otto: | 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.
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