Ships in Class
| Name | Number | Builder | Launched | Commissioned | Home port | Status |
| Farragut | DDG-37 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 18 July 1958 | 10 December 1960 | ||
| Luce | DDG-38 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 11 December 1958 | 20 May 1961 | ||
| Macdonough | DDG-39 | Bethlehem Steel Corporation | 9 July 1959 | 4 November 1961 | ||
| Coontz | DDG-40 | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard | 6 December 1958 | 15 July 1960 | ||
| King | DDG-41 | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard | 6 December 1958 | 17 November 1960 | ||
| Mahan | DDG-42 | San Francisco Naval Shipyard | 7 October 1959 | 25 December 1960 | ||
| Dahlgren | DDG-43 | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | 16 March 1960 | 8 April 1961 | ||
| William V. Pratt | DDG-44 | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard | 6 March 1960 | 4 November 1961 | ||
| Dewey | DDG-45 | Bath Iron Works | 30 November 1958 | 7 December 1959 | ||
| Preble | DDG-46 | Bath Iron Works | 23 May 1959 | 9 May 1960 |
The fictional USS Bedford was depicted as a Farragut class destroyer, using a large model ship, in the 1965 cold-war film The Bedford Incident.
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