USS ''Farragut'' (DD-300) was a built for the
United States Navy during World War I.
Description
The ''Clemson'' class was a repeat of the preceding although more fuel capacity was added.
[Gardiner & Gray, p. 125] The ships displaced at
standard load and at
deep load. They had an
overall length of , a
beam
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Streams of particles or energy
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**Laser beam
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**Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...
of and a
draught of . They had a crew of 6 officers and 108 enlisted men.
Performance differed radically between the ships of the class, often due to poor workmanship. The ''Clemson'' class was powered by two
steam turbine
A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbin ...
s, each driving one
propeller shaft, using steam provided by four
water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce a total of intended to reach a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of
fuel oil
Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil). Such oils include distillates (the lighter fractions) and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil, marine fuel oil (MFO), bun ...
which was intended gave them a range of at .
The ships were armed with four
4-inch (102 mm) guns in single mounts and were fitted with two
1-pounder guns for anti-aircraft defense. In many ships a shortage of 1-pounders caused them to be replaced by
3-inch (76 mm) guns. Their primary weapon, though, was their torpedo
battery
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* Electric battery, a device that provides electrical power
* Battery (crime), a crime involving unlawful physical contact
Battery may also refer to:
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of a dozen
21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes in four triple mounts. They also carried a pair of
depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon. It is intended to destroy a submarine by being dropped into the water nearby and detonating, subjecting the target to a powerful and destructive Shock factor, hydraulic shock. Most depth ...
rails. A "Y-gun" depth charge thrower was added to many ships.
Construction and career
''Farragut'', named for Admiral
David Farragut, was laid down by the
Union Iron Works Plant of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in
San Francisco, California on 4 July 1918.
It was sponsored by Marie Charlier Potts, wife of
Templin Morris Potts, and launched on 21 November 1918. On 4 June 1920, it was commissioned.
''Farragut'' arrived at
San Diego, California 3 July 1920, and was at once placed in reserve until 31 March 1922. Then she took up a regular training schedule along the west coast, from the
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone ( es, Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the Isthmus of Panama, that existed from 1903 to 1979. It was located within the terr ...
to
Oregon. On 27 July 1923, at
Seattle, Washington, she took part in a review taken by
President Warren G. Harding, on his way home from a visit to Alaska. Returning to San Diego, she, with eight other ships, grounded on a foggy night on Honda Point, 8 September, in the
Honda Point Disaster. ''Farragut'' and one other ship were able to get clear with only minor damage, while the others remained stranded on the rocky shore.
In both 1924 and 1927, ''Farragut'' sailed into the
Caribbean
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for fleet concentrations for maneuvers, in 1927 continuing north to visit New York,
Newport, Rhode Island, and
Norfolk, Virginia
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. Her first visit to the
Hawaiian Islands
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was in the summer of 1925, during which she acted as station ship during the flight of
seaplanes from the west coast to Hawaii. Again in the spring of 1928 ''Farragut'' exercised in the Hawaiians.
''USS Farragut'' was decommissioned at
San Diego on 1 April 1930, stricken from the
Naval Vessel Register on 22 July 1930 and sold for scrap on 31 October 1930 in accordance with the
London Naval Treaty
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address is ...
.
Citations
References
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External links
*http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/300.htm
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Clemson-class destroyers
Ships built in San Francisco
1918 ships
Maritime incidents in 1923