Farragut-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Farragut-class was the second destroyer class of the United States Navy 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 512.5 feet (156.21 m), a 52.3-foot (15.94 m) beam and a top speed of 33 knots (61.12 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 also the only redesignated ships to be renumbered as well 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.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
 * Service Period: 1960-1992
 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 512 feet 6 inches (156.21 meters)
 * Beam: 52 feet 3.6 inches (15.94 meters)
 * Draft: 17 feet 9.6 inches (5.43 meters)
 * Displacement: 4,170 tons (Standard); 5,650 tons (Standard)
 * Crew: 360
 * Propulsion: 2 Allis-Chalmers turbines, 4 1,200 Pound forced draft Babcock and Wilcox D-type super heated boilers, 85,000 shp (63,000 kW)
 * Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 kilometers) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h)
 * Speed: 32 knots (59.26 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR x 1
 * AN/SPS-37 air search RADAR x 1
 * AN/SPS-39 3D air search RADAR x 1
 * AN/SPG-53 gun fire control RADAR x 1
 * AN/SPG-55 Terrier fire control RADAR x 2
 * AN/SQS-23 SONAR
 * Armament:
 * 1 x 5"/54-caliber Mk.42 lightweight naval gun
 * 1 x Mk.10 Launcher (fires RIM-2 Terrier SAM)
 * 1 x Mk.112 ASROC Launcher
 * 2 x Mk.141 Harpoon SSM Launchers (fires RGM-84 Harpoon AShMs)
 * 6 x 12.75" ASW torpedo tubes

Unit Run

 * USS Farragut (DDG-37)
 * USS Luce (DDG-38)
 * USS Macdonough (DDG-39)
 * USS Coontz (DDG-40)
 * USS King (DDG-41)
 * USS Mahan (DG-42)
 * USS Dahlgren (DDG-43)
 * USS William V. Pratt (DDG-44)
 * USS Dewey (DDG-45)
 * USS Preble (DDG-46)