The Farragut ( DD ) Class
The Farragut class opened a new design phase for american destroyers. The four-stacker type was replaced with a decidedly more modern approach.
Three of the eight ships in the class were lost in World War Two; the Worden grounded at Amchitka, and Hull and Managhan were lost to a typhoon.
Displacement: 1,395 tons - Farragut - (2,335 tons full load)
1,345 Dewey
1,375 Aylwin
1,410 Worden (Class standard)
Length: 341 feet 3 inches
Beam: 34 feet 3 inches
Draught: 8 feet 10 inches
Machinery: Two Bethlehem Yarrow boilers - foreward fireroom
Two Babcock and Wilcox boilers - after fireroom
two shaft geared turbines
Performance: 42,800 shp for 36.5 knots
Bunkerage: 400 tons
Range: 5,800 nautical miles at 15 knots
Guns: five 5 inch; four .5 inch MG
Torpedoes: eight 21 inch
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