National Archives # 19-N-14753
| Tonnage | 1395 tons standard |
| Dimensions | 341'3" by 34'3" by 16'4" 104.01m by 10.44m by 1.96m |
| Maximum speed | 36.5 knots |
| Complement | 250 |
| Armament | 5x1 5"/38
dual-purpose guns 4 0.50 machine guns 2x4 21" torpedo tubes Depth charges |
| Bunkerage | 400 tons fuel oil |
| Range | 6500 nautical miles (12,000km) at 12 knots 5800 nautical miles (10,700km) at 15 knots |
| Modifications |
Early 1942: One 5" mount and
machine guns replaced with 8x1 20mm Oerlikon AA guns. By 1943: Radar added, generally SC, SG, and FD. Three of the single 20mm guns replaced with 2x2 40mm Bofors. At some point two depth charge throwers
were added to most units. |
The Farraguts were completed in 1934-1935 and were a good design for their time, being the first U.S. destroyers to mount 5" dual-purpose guns. However, the guns still did not have enclosed mounts (just shields on the forward guns) and the ships were somewhat lightly built. They were also too top heavy, a fault that would continue to characterize U.S. destroyer designs prior to the Fletchers. This would prove fatal to the Hull and Monaghan when they capsized in a typhoon late in the war.
Downes was completely wrecked during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her machinery was salvaged for construction of what was really a new ship, but the U.S. Navy chose to regard it as the old ship, extensively repaired, with the same hull number.
| Foundered
in a typhoon
1944-12-17 off Luzon |
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| Monaghan | Pearl Harbor | Foundered in a typhoon 1944-12-17 off Luzon |
| Worden | Pearl Harbor | Grounded and lost 1943-1-12 in the Aleutians |
| Cushing | 3 days out of San Francisco en route Oahu | Sunk by gunfire 1942-11-13 off Guadalcanal |
| Dewey | Task Force 11 (Halsey, Enterprise) west of Oahu | |
| Downes | 1943-11-15 (Mare Island) |
References
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia (c) 2007 by Kent G. Budge. Index
