Farragut-class destroyer (1934)

The Farragut - class was a class of destroyers in the service of the United States Navy.

History

The Farragut - class was built in the 1930s, when the limitations of the Naval Conference of London of 1930 were still in force. Therefore, the maximum size to a displacement of 1,500 tons standard (ts ) was committed. In the years 1934 and 1935, eight ships of the class were completed.

When the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet on 7 December 1941, all eight ships were in Pearl Harbor, but survived the attack. The Worden went aground off Alaska in January 1943 lost, Hull and Monaghan sank during Typhoon Cobra in December 1944. The remaining five were scrapped after the Second World War.

Technology

The ships displaced 1,365 ts, were about 102 meters long and 10.4 meters wide. They were armed with five 5 -inch ( 12.7 -cm ) naval guns, also with eight torpedo tubes.