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USS Farragut (DD-300)
The second Farragut (DD-300) was a Clemson-class destroyer laid down by the Union Iron Works Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco in California on 4 July 1918, launched on 21 November 1918 by Mrs. T. M. Potts and commissioned on 4 June 1920. Farragut went aground on to rocks near Point Pedernales on the coast of California in inclement weather on 8 September 1923 but managed to get clear with only minor damage. USS Farragut was decommissioned at San Diego on 1 April 1930, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 22 July 1930 and sold for scrap in October 1930 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty.
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