![]() USS King on 10 September 1961
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Class overview | |
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Name | Farragut class |
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Preceded by | Forrest Sherman class |
Succeeded by | Charles F. Adams class (as Destroyer) Leahy class (as Destroyer Leader) |
Built | 1957–1961 |
In commission | 1959–1993 |
Completed | 10 |
Scrapped | 10 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Guided-missile destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 512 ft 6 in (156.2 m) |
Beam | 52 ft 4 in (16.0 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 shafts, 2 geared steam turbines |
Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) (design) |
Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 23 officers, 337 enlisted men |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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The Farragut-class destroyer was a group of 10 guided-missile destroyers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1950s. They were the second destroyer class to be named for Admiral David Farragut. The class is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided-missile ship (under project SCB 142), whereas the previous three ships were designed as all-gun units (under SCB 129) and converted later.[5][6] The class was originally envisioned as a Destroyer Leader class (DL/DLG, verbally referred to as "Frigates"), but was reclassified as Guided-Missile Destroyers following the 1975 ship reclassification.
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