torpedo boat destroyer
31Torpedo net — Torpedo nets were a passive naval warship defensive device against torpedoes. Their use was common practice from the 1890s through World War II. Torpedo nets were superseded by the anti torpedo bulge and torpedo belts. Contents 1 Origins 2… …
32Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru — The Tomozuru was one of four Japanese sclass|Chidori|torpedo boats, completed on February 24, 1934 and capsized in a storm on March 12, 1934, during training.The significance of this incident is that it severely challenged Japanese assumptions… …
33Destroyer escort — A destroyer escort (DE) is the classification for a smaller, lightly armed warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. It is employed primarily for anti… …
34Destroyer tender — The destroyer tender Klondike with a flotilla of Sumner class destroyers A destroyer tender is a ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships. The use of this class has faded from its peak in… …
35Torpedo — The modern torpedo (historically called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo) is a self propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to… …
36destroyer — /di stroy euhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that destroys. 2. a fast, relatively small, warship armed mainly with 5 in. (13 cm) guns. [1350 1400; ME destroiere (cf. OF destruiere). See DESTROY, ER1] * * * Fast naval vessel used to protect other… …
37torpedo-boatdestroyer — tor·pe·do boat destroyer (tôr pēʹdō bōt ) n. A large, heavily armed torpedo boat used in combat especially against other torpedo boats until the early part of the 20th century. * * * …
38Daring class destroyer (1893) — HMS Daring Class overview Builders: John I. Thornycroft Company, Chiswick Operators …
39Havock class destroyer — The Havock class was a class of torpedo boat destroyer (TBD) of the British Royal Navy. The two ships, Havock and Hornet , built in London in 1893 by Yarrow Company, were the first TBDs in the Royal Navy.The invention of the self propelled… …
40Laforey class destroyer (1913) — The Laforey class (redesignated in October 1913 as the L class) was a class of 22 torpedo boat destroyers of the Royal Navy, twenty of which were built under the Naval Programme of 1912 1913 and a further two under the War Emergency Programme of… …
