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Photo # NH 82561:  USS Farragut underway, circa 1925

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USS Farragut (Destroyer # 300, later DD-300), 1920-1930

USS Farragut, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in June 1920. A month later, when the Navy formally implemented hull numbers for its ships, she received the designation DD-300. For nearly two years, Farragut was held in reserve at San Diego, California, but she began regular operations with the U.S. Fleet in March 1922. On 8 September 1923, while serving with Destroyer Squadron ELEVEN, she narrowly escaped destruction when seven of the squadron's destroyers were wrecked at Honda Point, California.

During 1924 and 1927, Farragut visited the Caribbean to take part in fleet maneuvers. She steamed across the Pacific in mid-1925, during the Battle Fleet's visit to New Zealand and Australia, and again visited the central Pacific area in 1928, during exercises in and around the Hawaiian Islands. As part of a general realignment of the Navy's destroyer force, USS Farragut was decommissioned in April 1930 and scrapped later in that year.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have related to USS Farragut (DD-300).

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Farragut (DD-300) -- On Board and Miscellaneous Views; and
  • USS Farragut (DD-300) -- Equator Crossing Ceremonies.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 54084

    USS Farragut
    (Destroyer # 300)

    Making 15 knots while running trials in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, on 22 May 1920.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 66732

    USS Farragut
    (Destroyer # 300)

    Steaming at high speed during trials. Probably photographed in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, on 22 May 1920.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82561

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    Underway, circa 1925.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84679

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    Receiving a tow from USS Neches (AO-5), on 4 April 1923.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 495 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 70922

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    Rolling in heavy seas, during the 1920s

    Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69004

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    Photographed at the time of a fatal gun accident on board, January 1926. The photograph's original caption (which does not completely fit the image) reads:
    "One Sailor was killed and seven other members of the forward four-inch gun crew received minor injuries as a result of the premature explosion of the gun during battle torpedo practice off Point Loma, California, January 1926. The gun is in the center, foreground."

    Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98017

    USS Reno (DD-303)
    (left)
    and
    USS Farragut (DD-300) (right)

    Off the coast of one of the Hawaiian Islands, circa 1925.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82564

    Destroyers moored together at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1925


    The ships present include (from right to left):
    USS Somers (DD-301);
    USS Farragut (DD-300);
    USS John Francis Burnes (DD-299);
    USS Percival (DD-298); and
    USS Stoddert (DD-302).
    The outboard destroyer (furthest to the left) can not be identified.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98015

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    In dry dock, circa 1925, with a sister ship alongside.
    Note her hull number.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82565

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    In drydock, circa 1925.
    Note the rivets in her hull plating, rudder, propellers, propeller guards and depth charge racks.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98016

    USS Farragut (DD-300)


    In dry dock, circa 1925, with a sister ship alongside.
    Note depth charge racks on her stern.

    Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     

    For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Farragut (DD-300) -- On Board and Miscellaneous Views; and
  • USS Farragut (DD-300) -- Equator Crossing Ceremonies.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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