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USS FARRAGUT (DD-348)

  

Shipname: USS FARRAGUT
Hull Number Designation: DD-348
Ship Type: Destroyer
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The USS FARRAGUT was at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.

Pearl Harbor Attack

DD348/A16-3

U.S.S. Farragut (348)

Pearl Harbor, T.H.

December 13, 1941.

From: The Commanding Officer.
To: The Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet
 
Subject: Report on measures taken during raid on December 7, 1941.
 
Reference: (a) CincPac desp 102102 of December 1941.
(b) U.S.N.R., 1920 Art. 712.
  1. Pursuant to reference (a) the following is reported; Farragut moored at buoy X-14 in Pearl Harbor, T.H., with Desdiv TWO:
    0758 Attack commenced. Went to General Quarters.
    0812 Opened fire with main battery. Machine guns not employed at this time due to planes being out of range.
    0828 Monaghan left nest.
    0840 Dale left nest.
    0852 Farragut left nest. Maintained continuous fire with main battery and with machine guns when planes were within range.
    0921 Japanese plane attacked Farragut with machine gun. No casualties. Slight damage to topside, while proceeding through channel and abreast Hickam Field, BUSHE, Daniel, CMC(AA), according to witnesses, brought down a Japanese dive bomber with 50 Caliber Machine gun fire.
    0927 Cleared channel ceased firing planes out of range.
  2. The Farragut was commanded during the action described above by Lieutenant E.K. JONES, U.S.N., the regularly assigned engineer officer. Lieut. Commander G.P. HUNTER, U.S.N., who was ashore on liberty took command of U.S.S. Hull by verbal orders of Comdesflot ONE and took her to sea without undue incident. He was accompanied in U.S.S. Hull by Lieutenant D.J. WAGNER, U.S.N. Other officers regularly assigned to Farragut went to sea in ships listed below:

    Ensign J.D.P. HODAPP Jr., U.S.N., USS Chew.
    Ensign W.D. BONNVILLIAN, U.S.N., U.S.S. Chew.
    Ensign G.A. MANNING, E-V(G), U.S.N.R., U.S.S. Dewey.

  3. The following officers were in Farragut at time of attack and sortie:

    Lieutenant E.K. JONES, U.S.N.
    Ensign W.W. DeVENTER, U.S.N.
    Ensign D.C. SLEEPER, D-V(G), U.S.N.R.
    Ensign J.A. BENHAM, D-V(G), U.S.N.R.
    Ensign D.A. DERTIEN, E-V(G), U.S.N.R.

  4. The conduct of all concerned was most commendable throughout.

[signed]
G.P. HUNTER

Sources of this information on the USS FARRAGUT comes from a variety of sources ranging from Jane's Fighting Ships to official US Naval (Department of the Navy) documents, navsource and US National Archives along with materials from sailors and donors to our collection. We wish to obtain material including but not limited to deck logs, cruise books, roster-muster rolls, photos, citations and technical operation and training materials. We are also looking for volunteers to help transribe roster muster rolls so that we can get this material into our searchable database.

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