Farragut-class destroyer (1934)

The Farragut-class destroyers of the 1930s were a class of eight 1,365-ton destroyers of the United States Navy and the first American destroyers of post-World War I design. Their construction, with the Porter class, was authorized by Congress in 1916 but funding was delayed; limited to 1,500 tons standard displacement by the London Naval Treaty of 1930, the ships were laid down from 1932 and the class was commissioned in 1934 and 1935, twelve years after the last Clemson-class destroyer. They were slightly larger and faster than their predecessors and had two stacks instead of four. The Farraguts were the first of six classes of 1,500-ton destroyers built in the 1930s, and all eight saw front-line service in the Second World War, though only five survived it. Bath Iron Works in Maine built one of them, Dewey.