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  Farragut-class destroyers in World War II
Farragut-class destroyers in World War II The original “goldplaters” were eight ships of the Farragut class, which surpassed the preceding flush-deckers in speed, maneuverability, seaworthiness, range, armament and habitability.
Farragut, the lead ship, was laid down on 20 September 1932 and all ships were completed by mid-1935.
As Destroyer Squadon 1 with flagship Phelps, all eight Farraguts were present on 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, where Monaghan depth charged and sank a midget submarine during the Japanese attack.
www.destroyerhistory.org /goldplater/farragutclass.html   (258 words)

  
  USS Farragut
Five destroyers of the United States Navy have been named USS Farragut in honor of David Farragut, an admiral of the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
The third Farragut (DD-348)[?], the lead ship of her class of destroyers[?], saw action during World War II.
The fifth USS Farragut (DDG-99)[?] was an flight IIa Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer ordered in 2001, under construction by the Bath Iron Works in Maine, and scheduled to be commissioned in 2006.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Farragut.html   (149 words)

  
  Farragut Square - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Farragut Square
In the center of the square is a statue of David G. Farragut, a Northern admiral in the Civil War famous for rallying his fleet with the cry, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" The statue's only inscription is "Farragut"http://sandstead.com/images/washington/various/REAM_Vinnie_Admiral_Farragut_ded_1881_bronze_Farragut_Square_LS_d100_07.jpg.
Farragut Square is in the center of a commercial and business district, and workers from nearby businesses frequently stop to have lunch in or around the square.
Sometimes events are scheduled with this in mind, such as the free "Farragut Sounds in the Square" jazz concert series, held every Thursday from noon to 2 PM from July 3 to August 19.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Farragut-Square.html   (322 words)

  
 USS Farragut (DD-348)
The third USS Farragut (DD-348), named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut USN (1801-1870), was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy.
Farragut was berthed in a nest of destroyers in East Loch, Pearl Harbor, at the time of the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.
Farragut was decommissioned on 23 October 1945, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 January 1947 and sold for scrap on 14 August 1947.
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 Encyclopedia: Arleigh Burke class destroyer
The Arleigh Burke class are among the largest destroyers ever built (larger is the Ticonderoga class of cruisers, which were constructed as destroyers and subsequently redesignated as cruisers), and certainly among the most powerful.
Admiral Burke was alive when the class leader was commissioned, and his words to the plank crew echo in the class's distinguished service to date: "This ship is built to fight; you'd better know how." Admiral is a word from the Arabic term Amir-al-bahr (Lord of the bay).
One Arleigh Burke class ship has been damaged by enemy action: Cole was damaged by a improvised explosive device delivered by a suicide boat in October 2000 in Aden, Yemen (see USS Cole bombing).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arleigh-Burke-class-destroyer   (2179 words)

  
 USS Farragut DDG-99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As part of a general realignment of the Navy's destroyer force, USS Farragut was decommissioned in April 1930 and scrapped later in that year.
Later in the year, Farragut was assigned to screen a force of oilers that sustained the fleet during its assaults on Japanese positions in the western Pacific.
USS Farragut, the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name, was projected as DL 6, reclassified DLG 6 on November 14, 1956, and finally became DDG 37 on June 30, 1975.
www.farragut.navy.mil /history.htm   (700 words)

  
 USS Farragut (DD-348), Farragut-class destroyer
The third USS Farragut, DD 348, was built at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. yard in Quincy, Massachusetts and commissioned in June 1934.
In early May 1942, the destroyer as assigned to Rear Admiral Kinkaid’s Attack Group—cruisers Minneapolis, New Orleans, Chester, Portland and Astoria with destroyers Phelps, Dewey, Monaghan and Aylwin—during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Later in the year, Farragut was assigned to screen a force of oilers that sustained the fleet during its assaults on Japanese positions in the western Pacific.
www.destroyerhistory.org /goldplater/ussfarragut.html   (464 words)

  
 Destroyer History — Introduction
State-of-the-art destroyers as World War Two began were the Japanese “special type.” The first of these were the Fubuki class; with heavy gun and torpedo armament, enclosed double turrets and a low silhouette, their design became the prototype for all subsequent Japanese destroyer construction.
Destroyer construction resumed in 1932, Over the next seven years, the US built several third-generation destroyer classes, collectively the “1500-tonners,” all of which featured this new 5-inch gun on a 340-to-350-foot high-forecastle hull that could exceed 35 knots.
The fourth-generation Benson and the concurrently-designed Gleaves (also known as the Livermore) classes (top of page) were similar in appearance to the Sims class, but returned to a two-stack layout, reflecting a “split” powerplant, in which two fire rooms alternated with two engine rooms for improved survivablity in case of a torpedo hit.
www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/introduction.html   (1698 words)

  
 Navy to Christen New Guided-Missile Destroyer Farragut
The newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Farragut, will be christened Saturday, July 23, 2005, during an 11 a.
Designated DDG 99, Farragut is the 49th of 62 Arleigh Burke class destroyers.
Farragut will be capable of fighting air, surface, and subsurface battles simultaneously.
www.blackanthem.com /scitech/2005072103.html   (333 words)

  
 Cruiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Historically they were generally considered the smallest ships capable of independent operations — destroyers usually requiring outside support such as tenders — but in modern parlance this difference has disappeared.
The current Aegis cruisers were originally designed and designated as a class of destroyer, intended to provide a very powerful air-defense in these carrier-centered fleets.
In the years since the launch of the Ticonderoga the class has received a number of upgrades that have dramatically improved their capabilities for anti-submarine and land attack (using the Tomahawk missile), and today the name is not mis-applied at all.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/cruiser.html   (1473 words)

  
 Farragut
Other class members were Farragut,Dewey, MacDonough, Worden, Dale, Monaghan, and Aylwin.
These were the first new US destroyers since the WWI vintage "4 pipers".
It is now available direct from Commanders Models, Inc., as well as dealers that regularly stock this line (Pacific Front, Rocky Mountain Shipyard, APC Hobbies et al).
www.steelnavy.com /Farragut.htm   (172 words)

  
 Destroyer History — Photo index
This collection contains photos of selected flush-deck destroyers and all 444 destroyers and 12 destroyer-minelayers commissioned between 1930 and the end of World War II, plus additional Allen M. Sumner- and
• 2100-ton Fletcher class with sections including high-bridge, low-bridge, variations, in color, in detail, closeups, on location, at sea, in action, damage, sinking, in history, art—all 175 ships.
• Bainbridge and Truxtun; Virginia and California classes — the 6 ships designated as nuclear guided missile frigates until 1975.
www.destroyerhistory.org /destroyers/photos.html   (356 words)

  
 MayportMirror.com: Farragut Joins Fleet 06/08/06
Farragut was appointed the U.S. Navy's first four-star Admiral in 1866, but is most famous for his cry at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 1864: ''Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!''
Designated DDG 99, Farragut is the 49th of 62 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
The 9,200-ton Farragut is being built by Bath Iron Works, a company of General Dynamics, and is 509.5 feet in length, has a waterline beam of 59 feet, and a navigational draft of 32 feet.
www.mayportmirror.com /stories/060806/may_ussfarragut001.shtml   (350 words)

  
 USS Farragut (DDG-37) - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
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.
www.free-definition.com /USS-Farragut-(DDG-37).html   (167 words)

  
 Farragut class
The US designs of the Washington treaty included 1500 ton destroyer designs to be built in greater numbers and 1800 ton destroyer flotilla leaders to be built in lesser numbers.
The farraguts were upgraded with radar and better directors during the war.
The main drawback, as with all US destroyers, was stability, the destroyers were too top heavy as designed and this forced the removal of the midships 5" gun on the Farraguts.
major_overkill.tripod.com /WWII/Farragut.htm   (245 words)

  
 2006 Gone but not forgotten
In sports, Farragut, Bearden and Christian Academy of Knoxville each had a pair of state champions — BHS and CAK are current defending champions in both boys and girls soccer, while Farragut’s baseball team overcame a mediocre regular season to claim its third state title in four years.
June 15: The town of Farragut filed a lawsuit against the Pilot Corp. alleging that the Pilot store at 701 N. Campbell Station Road is in violation of the Farragut sign ordinance.
Farragut school patrons, at a Tuesday, Oct. 3, hearing on attendance zones for Hardin Valley High School, showed school officials an even stronger sense of community — one built around Farragut’s own postal ZIP Code, 37934.
www.farragutpress.com /articles/2007/01/6057.html   (2819 words)

  
 USS Farragut to Make Maiden Port Visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Commissioned June 10, Farragut is the 49th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and is named in honor of Adm. David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870).
Farragut is famous for rallying his men to victory during one of the most celebrated victories in American naval history, the Battle of Mobile Bay, as he shouted, “Damn the torpedoes!
Farragut was built by Bath Ironworks in Bath, Maine, and christened July 23, 2005.
www.military.com /features/0,15240,103419,00.html   (326 words)

  
 LemaireSoft's Class: Farragut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Fourteen years elapsed between the launch of the last Flushdecker and the one of the first Farragut in 1934.
They were the first ships equipped with dual purpose 5" guns, which would be standard aboard US destroyer until well beyond the end of the war.
Identification: Compared to the Mahan and Fanning, the Farragut can be told apart visually thanks to their chimney stacks, of which the top is horizontal and of which the rear one is wider than the fore one.
www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/classe1/5702.html   (262 words)

  
 Iron Shipwright 1:350 USS Conyngham (Mahan class) Destroyer
The "Special Type" destroyers of the Fubuki and subsequent classes in reality established a new standard, by which all other destroyers would be measured.
By 1944 the standard fit for the class, including Conyngham, was four 5" guns, four 40mm in two twin mounts, five 20mm in single mounts and the original torpedo armament.
I received the resin parts of the ship and a fret from the IS USS Hull (Farragut Class) Destroyer at the end of September.
www.steelnavy.com /Conyngham.htm   (1916 words)

  
 da Fregat In modern military terminology a...
With the introduction of steam and steel warships frigates as a class of warship passed out of use until World War II World War II when they were reintroduced by the British as an antisubmarine escort vessel larger than a corvette corvette but smaller than a destroyer destroyer.
They were far larger than any other frigates ever seen, and all except the "Farragut" class (which were smaller than the others) were properly reclassified as cruisers cruisers in 1975 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register Naval Vessel Register in the 1990s 1990s.
Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate (FFG-7 class) The US Navy intends to replace all existing frigates with the Littoral Combat Ship Littoral Combat Ship, of which as many as 60 may be built.
www.biodatabase.de /frigate   (630 words)

  
 USS Farragut (DDG-37) Information
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.
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.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/USS_Farragut_(DDG-37)   (184 words)

  
 LemaireSoft's Class: Farragut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Fourteen years elapsed between the launch of the last Flushdecker and the one of the first Farragut in 1934.
They were the first ships equipped with dual purpose 5" guns, which would be standard aboard US destroyer until well beyond the end of the war.
Identification: Compared to the Mahan and Fanning, the Farragut can be told apart visually thanks to their funnels, of which the top is horizontal and of which the rear one is wider than the fore one.
users.swing.be /classen1/classe1/5702.html   (251 words)

  
 US Destroyer
Destroyers and guided missile destroyers operate in support of carrier battle groups, surface action groups, amphibious groups and replenishment groups.
The Spruance class destroyers, the first large U.S. Navy warships to employ gas turbine engines as their main propulsion system, are undergoing extensive modernizing.
Like the Kidd class, Spruance class destroyers are expected to remain a major part of the Navy's surface combatant force into the 21st century.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/8629/Sdestroy.htm   (615 words)

  
 informationsphere.com: Destroyer
Destroyers primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers are multi-mission (ASW, anti-air and anti-surface warfare) surface combatants.
The Spruance-class destroyers, the first large U.S. Navy warships to employ gas turbine engines as their main propulsion system, are undergoing extensive modernizing.
Spruance-class destroyers are expected to remain a major part of the Navy's surface combatant force into the 21st century.
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 Tin Can Sailors - The National Association of Destroyer Veterans
The Somers (DD-381) class was the second group of destroyer leaders built by the U.S. Navy during the 1930s and followed the general characteristics of the preceding Porter (DD-356) class, which was ordered in 1933.
These new destroyers were subject to the terms of the 1930 London Naval Arms Limitation Treaty, which regulated ship size.
It limited destroyers to 1,500 tons, introduced the category of destroyer leader at 1,850 tons, and set the maximum caliber of the guns for both types at 5.1 inches.
www.destroyers.org /DD-Histories/DD-Classes/Intro-DD381.htm   (946 words)

  
 ships information & USS Dewey Stats
Although the USS Dewey was commissioned as a DLG in June on 1975 as part of the SALT Treaty the ship was redesiginated a DDG and given the hull number of 45.
Later, after being uniform with the rest of the Farragut reclassified Coontz class would be grouped as Farragut class.
The FARRAGUT CLASS (DLG- 6) was reclassified too a DDG to conform to an international tonnage displacements as a destroyer.
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 USS Farragut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Five destroyers of the United States Navy have been named USS Farragut in honor of David Farragut, an admiral of the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
The third Farragut (DD-348), the lead ship of her class of destroyers, was commissioned on 18 June 1934.
The fourth Farragut (DDG-37) was also the lead ship of her class of destroyers (Farragut-class guided missile frigate/destroyer), commissioned on 10 December 1960.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/USS-Farragut.htm   (237 words)

  
 Destroyer - USN "Benson" Class
Based on the experience made the the previous types the U.S. Navy orderd in the late 30s a new type of 1,500ts destroyers - the Bensons.
Due to minor differences these ships could be divided into four sub classes - the Benson, the Gleaves, the Livermoore and the Bristol type.
Between 1940 and 1943 the U.S. Navy commissioned 96 ships of this class.
homepages.fh-giessen.de /~hg6339/data/us/destroyers/1938_cdd_benson-class.htm   (82 words)

  
 BIW Ship Specs.Hulls #101-200
Complement of 9 officers and 199 enlisted.Converted to a destroyer minesweeper and reclassified DMS-23 November 15,1944.
First of Class for Bath Iron Works and first of entire Class ready for United States Navy trials, in which she reached 37.76 knots.
On October 6,1943 destroyed the Japanese destroyer YAGUMO and then took on the survivors of the torpedoed and sinking CHEVALIER, DD-451.
members.tripod.com /BIW_History/hulls101_200.html   (7031 words)

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