Farragut class destroyer (1958)

The Farragut class was a destroyer class of the United States Navy and the second class of destroyer named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. It is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class by some sources, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided missile ship while 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 , a beam and a top speed of . 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.

List of Farragut class destroyers

See also

• Farragut-class destroyer (1934)
• List of United States Navy destroyer leaders

References

External links

• 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.