FARRAGUT CLASS DESTROYER (1958)

The '''Farragut''' class (known in some sources as the ''Coontz'' class, as USS ''Coontz'' was commissioned ahead of USS ''Farragut'') was a destroyer class of the United States Navy and the second class of destroyer named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut.
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, a 52 foot beam and a top speed of 33 knots. 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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Specification as built

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Specification as built

Displacement: 4,167 tons standard; 5,648 tons full load
Length: 512.5ft(156.3m)
Beam: 52.3ft(15m)
Draught:17.8ft(5.3m)
Propulsion: 2 shaft; geared steam turbines; 4 boilers; 85,000shp
Speed: 32 knots
Range: 5,000nm at 20 knots
Armaments: 1x Mark 13 Launcher Terrier SAM; 1x 5in(127mm); 1x ASROC Launcher; 6x 12.8in(324mm) ASW TT
Complement: 360

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★ ''Farragut''-class frigates at Destroyer History Foundation
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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★ ''Farragut''-class destroyer (1934)