United States Navy — Destroyer class
Farragut-class destroyer (1934)
Farragut class
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1932–1935
- In commission
- 1934–1945
- Preceded by
- Clemson-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Porter-class destroyer
- Builders
- Boston Navy Yard, MA (2)
- Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY (2)
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA (1)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (1)
- Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA (1)
- Philadelphia Navy Yard, PA (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,365 long tons (1,387 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,064 long tons (2,097 t)
- Length
- 103.94 m (341 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Complement
- 160
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 5 × 5 in/38 caliber guns
- 4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2 × 4), 8 torpedoes
- circa 1943:
- 4 × 5 in/38 caliber guns
- 4 × 40 mm Bofors guns (2 × 2)
- 5 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2 × 4), 8 torpedoes
- 4 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- 2 × Depth charge stern racks
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Aylwin (DD-355) | DD-355 | 1935 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Dale (DD-353) | DD-353 | 1935 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Dewey (DD-349) | DD-349 | 1934 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Farragut (DD-348) | DD-348 | 1934 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Hull (DD-350) | DD-350 | 1935 | Wrecked 1944 |
| USS Macdonough (DD-351) | DD-351 | 1935 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Monaghan (DD-354) | DD-354 | 1935 | Wrecked 1944 |
| USS Worden (DD-352) | DD-352 | 1935 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Farragut-class destroyer (1934) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.