DD-348 Farragut
USS Farragut, first of a class of eight 1365-ton destroyers, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in June 1934 as the first U.S. Navy destroyer built in more than a decade, she operated in the Atlantic area until the spring of 1935. Transferred at that time to the Pacific, Farragut took part in the U.S. Fleet's peacetime maneuvers and training. Her base was shifted from the west coast to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in October 1939, and she was moored there when Japan began the Pacific War with the 7 December 1941 surprise attack on that base. Her early wartime missions included patrol and escort duties in the vicinity of Hawaii and the California coast. In early May 1942, the destroyer participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
