USS Farragut (Ddg-37) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles USS Farragut (DDG-37), named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, USN (1801-1870), was a Farragut-class guided missile frigate (destroyer leader) laid down as DLG-6 by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts on June 3, 1957, launched on July 15, 1958 by Mrs. H. D. Felt, wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations and commissioned on December 10, 1960. Farragut was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer on June 30, 1975 and designated DDG-37. USS Farragut was decommissioned on October 31, 1989, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on November 20, 1992 and sold for scrap on December 16, 1994. On September 26, 2006 a contract to dismantle ex-Farragut was awarded to International Shipbreaking Limited of Brownsville, Texas. The ship's bell is currently being kept and preserved at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida.