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295k | David Glasgow Farragut was born at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tennessee, 5 July 1801. He entered the Navy as a midshipman 17 December 1810. When only twelve years old, he was given command of a prize ship taken by Essex and brought her safely to port. Through the years that followed, in one assignment after another he showed the high ability and devotion to duty which was to allow him in the Civil War to make an overwhelming contribution to victory and to write an immortal page in the history of not only the United States Navy but of military service of all times and nations. In command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, with his flag in Hartford, he disproved the theory that forts ashore held superiority over naval forces, when in April 1862 he ran past Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the Chalmette batteries to take the great city and port of New Orleans (a decisive event in the war) and later that year passed the batteries defending Vicksburg. Port Hudson fell to him 9 July 1863, and on 5 August 1864 he won a great victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, passing through heavy minefields (the torpedoes of his famous quotation: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), as well as the opposition of heavy batteries in Forts Morgan and Gaines to defeat the squadron of Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan. His country honored its great sailor by creating for him the rank of Admiral, never before used in the United States Navy. Admiral Farragut's last active service was in command of the European Squadron with Franklin as his flagship. He died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 14 August 1870.
Photo of Admiral David G. Farragut, circa 1863. From the Mathew Brady Collection, National Archives NARA identifier 529975. | Bill Gonyo/Robert M. Cieri |
USS Farragut (DD-348) Construction and Prewar
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| 91k | Undated, location unknown. This was taken early in her career, with her number just above the boot topping. | Robert M. Cieri |
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176k | Snapshot of Farragut on the ways before launching, March 1934. | Dave Wright |
Two views of Farragut ready for launching at Quincy, on or about the morning of 15 March 1934. Note the press van and empty christening platform. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, accession numbers 08_06_005097 and 08_06_004935. | Dave Wright and Dale Hargrave |
| 147k | Farragut's christening party. James Roosevelt, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., are on the right. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, accession number 08_06_010017. | Dave Wright |
| 293k | Awaiting christening at Quincy, 15 March 1934. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, accession number 08_06_005225. | Ed Zajkowski |
| 104k | Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, wife of FDR's son, James Roosevelt, christens Farragut, 15 March 1934. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, accession number 08_06_009333. | Dave Wright |
| 218k | Sliding down the ways at Quincy, 15 March 1934. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library, accession number 08_06_005162. | Ed Zajkowski |
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66k | Farragut being guided by tugboats to a berth immediately after launching, 15 March 1934. Note she lacks any armament or gun directors. | Dave Wright |
| 1010k | Article about Farragut's commissioning, from The Boston Globe, 18 June 1934. | Dave Wright |
| 203k | Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 24 June 1934. From top to bottom: Farragut (DD-348); unidentified ship, possibly a buoy tender, at left, with a Tampa-class Coast Guard cutter at right (either Modoc or Mojave);
Eagle 19 (PE-19); Texas (BB-35); New York (BB-34); French Navy aviso D'Entrecasteaux; Constitution.
Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection. Accession number 08_06_016874. | Dave Wright |
| 583k | Cropped detail of above photo, showing only Farragut. Note that, though commissioned a week earlier, she still has not had her main armament fitted, with cylindrical structures covering the gun mounts. | Dave Wright |
| 583k | Farragut seen from astern while in drydock, probably at Boston Navy Yard. This photo was taken soon after Farragut was commissioned, as her main armament is not in place.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 61577. | Robert Hurst |
| 864k | Farragut arrives to a rather small crowd at Pier 32, North River, New York, 02 September 1934. This was the beginning of her shakedown cruise to the West Indies, after which she went to Norfolk Navy Yard to receive her armament.
Photo from the New York Daily News, 04 September 1934. | Dave Wright |
| 608k | Farragut seen at Norfolk Navy Yard after completing her official acceptance trials, 22 October 1934. Note that her hull number was then painted low on the hull, just above the boot topping.
National Archives photo 19-N-14753 | Rick E. Davis |
| 818k | Farragut open for visitors at Washington Navy Yard, 27 October 1934. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inspected the new destroyer the next day. From Minneapolis Star Tribune, 29 October 1934. | Dave Wright |
| 555k | Five units of Destroyer Squadron Twenty (DesRon 20) moored together, circa 1936. The destroyers are (from left to right): Dewey (DD-349), Farragut (DD-348), Worden (DD-352), Hull (DD-350) and Aylwin (DD-355).
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 68450 | Fred Weiss |
| 697k | USS Farragut underway at sea, 14 September 1936. National Archives photo 80-G-463607 | Robert Hurst |
| 670k | Farragut leading a column of Destroyer Squadron Twenty ships, during manouevres staged for Movietone News, off San Diego, California, 14 September 1936. The next ship astern is Aylwin (DD-355).
Naval and History Heritage Command photo NH 67299. | Robert Hurst |
| 641k | USS Farragut (DD-348) underway during manouvres staged for Movietone News, off San Diego, California, 14 September 1936. She is being overflown by five patrol planes. That at left is a PBY-1 of Patrol Squadron Eleven-F (VP-11F). The other four are P2Ys of Patrol Squadron Seven-F (VP-7F).
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 67309. | Robert Hurst |
| 549k | Destroyer Squadron Twenty (DesRon20) steams through a smokescreen laid by planes of Patrol Squadrons Seven, Nine and Eleven, during an exhibition staged for Movietone News off San Diego, California, 14 September 1936. The ships are, from bottom to top: Farragut (DD-348); Dewey (DD-349); Hull (DD-350); Macdonough (DD-351); Worden (DD-352); Dale (DD-353); Monaghan (DD-354) and Aylwin (DD-355).
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 67293, courtesy Commander Robert L. Ghormley, Jr., USN, 1969. | Robert Hurst |
| 411k | Farragut (DD-348) steaming in harbor, 14 March 1938. Note the colored band and the red Engineering Excellence "E" painted on her after smokestack. Also note her hull number is now painted higher up on the bow.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives, photo 80-G-427093. | Scott Dyben |
| 1010k | Farragut underway in the Pacific during Fleet Problem XIX, 20-28 April 1938. Note someone has enhanced with pen the "E" on the stack so it shows up more clearly. National Archives photo 80-G-465921 | Rick E. Davis |
| 109k | Prewar shot from the 1940 fleet recognition cards. Photo taken late 1938-early 1939, as she has one stripe on her Engineering Excellence "E," whereas
by September 1939, she had two stripes. | Jon Burdett |
| 586k | USS Farragut underway during fleet exercises off San Pedro, California, 27 September 1939. Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center. NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) identifier 520586, NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-80-CF-2153-7. | Robert Hurst |
| 133k | Balch (DD-363) coming alongside another ship, with Aylwin (DD-355), Monaghan (DD-354), Farragut (DD-348) and another unidentified destroyer nested in background at San Diego, circa 1938-40. | Darryl Baker |
USS Farragut (DD-348) Wartime
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| 1023k | Farragut (DD-348) underway in the central Pacific, photographed by an aircraft from Chenango (CVE-28), December 1943. Farragut spent the first two weeks of that month as a part of Task Group 53.6 (Including Chenango) during Operation Galvanic against the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands. National Archives photo 80-G-321652 | Scott Dyben |
| 442k | Farragut (DD-348) alongside Yorktown (CV-10), 02 May 1944, while Task Group 58.2 was proceeding to Majuro. National Archives photo 80-G-376094 | Rick E. Davis |
| 83k | Farragut (DD-348) while employed in engaging Japanese caves and gun emplacements at point blank range off Guam, east of Agana, 17-18 July 1944. Photo from "United States Destroyer Operations in World War II" by Theodore Roscoe. | Robert Hurst |
Two views of Farragut operating off Guam, 17-24 July 1944. These photos are likely off Agat Beach 17 or 18 July, while covering the landings of the UDT teams. Note the LCIs in the distance, as well as the passing APD (probably Kane (APD-18) or Dickerson (APD-21)). National Archives photos 80-G-255139 and 255081 | Rick E. Davis |
| 637k | Farragut underway at sea during August 1944, probably while enroute from Pearl Harbor to Bremerton for refit. National Archives photo 80-G-282347. | Fred Weiss |
Four views of Farragut off Puget Sound Navy Yard, 29 September 1944. Farragut received an overhaul there 18 August-05 October 1944, where she was fitted with Mark 51 fire control directors. This series of photos was probably taken in the afternoon, when she returned to PSNY from her full power trial run and post-refit test firing of weapons. Her camouflage scheme is Measure 31, Design 7d.
National Archives photos 19-N-72730, -72731, PSNY photos 3236-44 and 3231-44 | Robert Hurst / Rick E. Davis |
| 982k | Aerial starboard side view of Farragut taken from a blimp of squadron ZP-33 on October 25, 1944. On this date, Farragut was returning to Pearl Harbor for drydock repairs after exercises south of Oahu. The ship carries Measure 31/7d camouflage scheme.
National Archives photo No 80-G-272505 | Mike Green / Rick E. Davis |
Two views of Farragut taken from Sargent Bay (CVE-83), 26 November 1944. Both ships were operating as part of TU 30.8.5 this date. National Archives photos 80-G-321488 and -263899 | Rick E. Davis |
Memorabilia
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| 651k | Photographic reproduction of a painting by Walter L. Greene, depicting the ship as first completed, circa the mid-1930s. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 61878 | Dave Wright |
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80k | Chewing gum collectible card, issued by Leaf Gum Company during World War II. | Tommy Trampp |
Four men died in service aboard and remain on duty
