USS Farragut (DD-348)
|
|
| Missing image USS_Farragut_DD-348.jpg USS Farragut DD-348 | |
| Career | 
|
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 20 September 1932 |
| Launched: | 15 March 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 18 June 1934 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 October 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 14 August 1947. |
| Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register: | 28 January 1947 |
| Motto: | |
USS Farragut (DD-348), named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut USN (1801-1870), was the lead ship of her class of destroyers. It was laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Quincy in Massachusetts on 20 September 1932, launched on 15 March 1934 by Mrs. James Roosevelt, daughter-in-law of the President and commissioned on 18 June 1934.
Farragut was berthed in a nest of destroyers in East Loch when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941, took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea, screened USS Saratoga (CV-3) during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, engaged in patrol and escort duties from the Fiji Islands to the Aleutians, served as radar picket through the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and supported the ships of the Fast Carrier Task Force during the Marine landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
USS 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.