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| Career
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| Ordered:
| January 27, 1956
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| Laid down:
| June 3, 1957
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| Launched:
| July 18, 1958
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| Commissioned:
| December 10, 1960
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| Decommissioned:
| October 31, 1989
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| Fate:
| Awaiting disposal
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| Struck:
| November 20, 1992
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 5,800 tons
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| Length:
| 512.5 ft.
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| Beam:
| 52 ft.
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| Draught:
| 25 ft.
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| Propulsion:
| 4 1200psi boilers, 2 geared turbines
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| Speed:
| 33 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted)
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| Armament:
| one Mk 42 5-inch/54 caliber gun, Mk 46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple mounts, one Mk 16 ASROC Missile Launcher, one Mk 10 Mod.0 Missile Launcher for Standard (MR) Missiles, two Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers
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| Aircraft:
| None
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| Motto:
| Damn the torpedoes!
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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. H. D. Felt, wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and commissioned on 10 December 1960. 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.
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