The second USS Farragut (DD-300) was a Clemson-class destroyer

Clemson class destroyer

The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.The Clemson-class ships were commissioned by the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, New York Shipbuilding...

 in the United States Navy

United States Navy

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. She was named for Admiral David Farragut

David Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the...

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History

Farragut was laid down by the Union Iron Works

Union Iron Works

Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, on the southeast waterfront, was a central business within the large industrial zone of Potrero Point, for four decades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.-History:...

 Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation

Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipbuilding Division was created in 1905 when Bethlehem Steel Corporation acquired the San Francisco shipyard Union Iron Works in 1905...

 in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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 on 4 July 1918, launched on 21 November 1918 by Mrs. Templin Potts

Templin Potts

Templin Morris Potts was a United States Navy Captain and the 11th Naval Governor of Guam. He held many important posts during his time in the Navy, including Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, Naval attaché to Kaiser Wilhelm II, and aid for naval personnel...

 and commissioned on 4 June 1920.

Farragut arrived at San Diego, California

San Diego, California

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 3 July 1920, and was at once placed in reserve until 31 March 1922. Then she took up a regular training schedule along the west coast, from the Panama Canal Zone

Panama Canal Zone

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 to Oregon

Oregon

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. On 27 July 1923, at Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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, she took part in a review taken by President

President of the United States

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 Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

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, on his way home from a visit to Alaska. Returning to San Diego, she, with eight other ships, grounded on a foggy night on Honda Point, 8 September, in the Honda Point Disaster

Honda Point Disaster

The Honda Point Disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots , ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa...

. Farragut and one other ship were able to get clear with only minor damage, while the others remained stranded on the rocky shore.

In both 1924 and 1927, Farragut sailed into the Caribbean

Caribbean

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 for fleet concentrations for maneuvers, in 1927 continuing north to visit New York, Newport, Rhode Island

Newport, Rhode Island

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, and Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk, Virginia

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. Her first visit to the Hawaiian Islands

Hawaiian Islands

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 was in the summer of 1925, during which she acted as station ship during the flight of seaplane

Seaplane

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s from the west coast to Hawaii. Again in the spring of 1928 Farragut exercised in the Hawaiians.

USS Farragut was decommissioned at San Diego on 1 April 1930, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register

Naval Vessel Register

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 on 22 July 1930 and sold for scrap, 31 October 1930 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty

London Naval Treaty

The London Naval Treaty was an agreement between the United Kingdom, the Empire of Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on April 22, 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding. Ratifications were exchanged in London on October 27, 1930, and the treaty went...

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External links

• http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/300.htm