USS Farragut (DDG-99)

History

United States
Name:	USS Farragut
Namesake:	Admiral David Farragut
Ordered:	6 March 1998
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	9 January 2004
Launched:	23 July 2005
Sponsored by:	Senator Susan Collins
Commissioned:	10 June 2006
Homeport:	Naval Station Mayport, Mayport, Florida
Motto:	Prepared for Battle
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Type:	Guided Missile Destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)
Draft:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	30+ knots (56+ km/h)
Complement:	290 officers and enlisted
Armament:	One 64-cell and one 32-cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, with 96 RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles 1 × 5 in (127 mm)/62 gun, 2 × 25 mm guns, 4 × 12.7 mm guns, 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	Two SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters, or one Sea Hawk and one gunship helicopter

USS Farragut (DDG-99) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth Navy ship named for Admiral David Farragut (1801–1870), and the 49th ship of the Arleigh Burke class.

Farragut's keel was laid down on 9 January 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened on 23 July 2005, with Senator Susan Collins of Maine as her sponsor. Farragut was commissioned on 10 June 2006.

Farragut is equipped with the "Smart Ship" data distribution and control system.

Farragut departed Naval Station Mayport for her maiden deployment on 7 April 2008 in support of the Partnership of the Americas 2008 (POA 08). She returned home after six months on 5 October 2008.

Farragut departed Naval Station Mayport again in January 2010 for her second deployment, heading for the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR). After a quick transit through the Mediterranean Sea, she made her way south through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea en route Djibouti, Djibouti to embark and become the flagship for Combined Task Force 151, the task force responsible for Counter-Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. Farragut then enjoyed a port visit to Port Victoria, Seychelles. After turning over the duties of CTF 151, Farragut enjoyed port visits to Salala, Oman and Manama, Bahrain, before rendezvousing with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to assume shotgun duties for the aircraft carrier. Once complete with all tasking in CENTCOM, Farragut sailed back west through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to enjoy port visits in Santander, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal, before returning home to Naval Station Mayport in August 2010.

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