Farragut-class destroyer (1958)

The Farragut-class destroyers of the 1950s were a group of ten guided-missile destroyers built for the United States Navy, the second destroyer class named for Admiral David Farragut. The class is sometimes called the Coontz class, because Coontz was the first of them designed and built as a guided-missile ship under project SCB 142, whereas the three before it were designed as all-gun ships under SCB 129 and converted later. They were first envisioned as destroyer leaders, called frigates in speech, and were reclassified as guided-missile destroyers in the 1975 ship reclassification. The first ships were commissioned starting in 1960 with a twin-arm Terrier launcher aft, a 5-inch/54 gun forward and an ASROC launcher, and the class was retired in the early 1990s. Bath Iron Works in Maine built two of the ten ships, Dewey and Preble.