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A warship fast enough to outrun trouble and mean enough to start it.
means A destroyer is a fast, maneuverable warship built to escort larger vessels and attack enemy ships, submarines, and aircraft.
from From the verb 'destroy' — itself from Old French 'destruire,' which traces back to Latin 'destruere,' literally 'to unbuild' (the prefix 'de-' meaning 'down' plus 'struere,' 'to build,' the same root that gives us 'structure'). The warship sense is a shortening of 'torpedo-boat destroyer,' a late-19th-century type designed specifically to hunt and sink the small, fast torpedo boats that menaced battleships. The name stuck even as the vessels grew into general-purpose fighters.
- origin
- Born to kill torpedo boats threatening battleships
- speed
- Some top 30-plus knots, faster than ferries
- swiss army
- Hunts subs, planes, ships, and shore targets
- name shift
- Once called torpedo boat destroyers, shortened over time
- missile age
- Modern ones carry cruise missiles and radar fortresses
uss arleigh burke — lead ship of the most numerous destroyer class in the us navy, commissioned 1991
hms daring — type 45 destroyer, uk royal navy's air defense destroyer, commissioned 2009
yamato class battleship — japanese imperial navy's largest warship class, sunk 1945
bismarck — german battleship that sank hms hood in 1941