* 1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

Tank destroyer are armed with a gun or missile launcher, and is designed specifically to engage enemy armored vehicles.

A tank destroyer is a type of armored fighting vehicle armed with a gun or missile launcher, and is designed specifically to engage enemy armored vehicles.

* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers.

In terms of gunnery, speed ( 22. 5 knots in trials ) and dimensions, the specific design to chase torpedo boats and her high seas capabilities, Destructor is widely considered the first torpedo-boat destroyer ever built.

" During the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the commander of the torpedo boat destroyer IJN Akatsuki described " being in command of a destroyer for a long period, especially in wartime ... is not very good for the health.

* 1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer.

" The U. S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper ( DDG-70 ) is named for her, as was the Cray XE6 " Hopper " supercomputer at NERSC.

The is sunk and a U. S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.

There is no supreme divine creator, owner, preserver, or destroyer.

* 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

" Man has the power to act as his own destroyer — and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

* 1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

) () Both meanings become apparent in Exodus 12: 23 when parsed as: the Lord will pass ( hover, guard ) over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer ( destroying angel is commanded to pass by the children of Israel ) to come in unto your houses to smite.

The primary role of the Type 45 destroyer is anti-air warfare ; in order to fulfil this role, it is equipped with the Sea Viper ( formerly known as PAAMS ) integrated anti-aircraft system which can fire Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles.

* is an Arleigh Burke-class " Aegis " guided missile destroyer, launched in 1995.

Kolchak, being of the opinion that the person responsible for planning operations should take part in their execution, was always on board those ships which carried out the operations and sometimes took direct command of the destroyer flotillas.

: 2: From the early 20th century to the mid-20th century, a type of armored warship with varying armament and of various sizes, but always smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer, capable of both direct support of a battle fleet and independent operations, armed with guns and sometimes torpedoes.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8, 000 people.

After World War II and until 1975, the U. S. Navy defined a " frigate " as a type of surface warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser ; in other navies, such a ship generally was referred to as a destroyer leader — hence the U. S. Navy's use of " DL " for " frigate " prior to 1975 — while " frigates " in other navies were smaller than destroyers and more like what the U. S. Navy termed a " destroyer escort ", " ocean escort ", or " DE ".

As these designs became more formalized they became known as " torpedo boat destroyers ", and eventually evolved into the modern destroyer.

** WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

In the novel Cloak of Deception, Gunray and his associates visit the Baktoid factories to acquire even more powerful weapons, including destroyer droids.

Also known as Brahman ( the infinite manifestation the universe-not to be confused with Atman, the manifestation of god within a body ; somewhat comparable to a soul ), all others are considered his aspects, or avatars ,-Vishnu, the protector or preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer, are the main examples of this, due to them being more popular aspects of the Ultimate Reality.

Bigger, faster and more heavily gunned than the torpedo boat, the destroyer evolved to protect the capital ships from the menace of the torpedo boat.

Enemy tanks were supposed to be dealt with by the tank destroyer forces, which were composed of lightly armored but relatively fast vehicles carrying more powerful anti-tank guns, as well as towed versions of these anti-tank guns.

This new generation of German vehicles meant the Red Army needed a new and more powerful tank destroyer.

It was replaced on the production lines by the SU-100 tank destroyer, armed with the more powerful 100 mm D-10S gun.

However, it proved less reliable at permanently destroying the Elefant heavy tank destroyer, which was impervious to any other Russian gun and lacked a turret, making it more resistant to non-penetrating HE blast.

After Kursk, the 152 mm BR-540 solid-core AP round was produced in small numbers and issued to heavy tank destroyer battalions in an effort to introduce a penetrating projectile, but the gun's inherent low velocity made the AP round no more accurate and only moderately more effective than the standard HE round ( which could also be used against infantry ).

The primary application of the ISU-122 was as a tank destroyer, while the SU / ISU-152 tended more towards the assault gun role.

Over the next decade EarthForce would develop larger and more powerful warships ( such as the Omega class destroyer ) to combat alien threats.

The Argentine Navy has been traditionally greatly involved in fishery inspection helping the Coast Guard: most notably in 1966 a destroyer fired on and holed a Russian trawler which had refused to be escorted to Mar del Plata, in the 1970s there were four more incidents with Soviet and Bulgarian ships and continued in recent years.

The Home Fleet comprised the flagship HMS Nelson leading a force that included the 2nd Battle Squadron ( United Kingdom ) ( five more battleships ), the Battlecruiser Squadron ( HMS Hood and HMS Renown ), the 2nd Cruiser Squadron ( Vice-Admiral Edward Astley-Rushton, CB, CMG aboard Dorsetshire ( three cruisers )), three destroyer flotillas ( 27 ), a submarine flotilla ( six ), two aircraft carriers and associated vessels.

Takanamis surviving crew abandoned ship at 01: 30, but a large explosion killed many more of them in the water, including the destroyer division commander, Toshio Shimizu, and the ship's captain, Masami Ogura.

This was a further attempt at collaboration that was only moderately more successful, with the UK eventually withdrawing and starting its own national project, the type 45 destroyer.

After the conclusion of the war, the class was eventually replaced in front line roles by the more flexible Omega class destroyer.

She received the Presidential Unit Citation and earned 17 battle stars for World War II service, more than any other destroyer in the war.

Since it was intended as a self-propelled artillery piece rather than a true tank destroyer, the SU-152 was generally issued with standard HE rounds rather than armor-piercing projectiles.

The Louisiana Maneuvers ' data showed that the Infantry's AT guns actually took a much higher toll of ' enemy ' tanks than did the tank destroyer battalions ' guns.

A destroyer squadron is a naval squadron or flotilla usually consisting of destroyers rather than other types of vessel.

* Destroyer escort: A smaller, lightly armed warship built in large numbers during World War II, cheaper, slower, and less-well-armed than a destroyer and designed to escort convoys of merchant ships or naval auxiliaries.

: 4: In the 20th and 21st centuries, a warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally introduced during World War II as an anti-submarine vessel but now general-purpose.

* Japanese destroyer Momo, the name of more than one Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer