In the 1930s, twin 6-pounder, quick-firing anti-torpedo boat guns ; five searchlights ; an Operational Tower ; two machine-guns and two twin Lewis anti-aircraft machine guns were added due to reports of impending war.

As destroyers changed from specialized anti-torpedo boat vessels that operated in squadrons to larger multi-purpose ships that operated alone or as leaders of groups of smaller vessels, and as command and control techniques improved ( and the technology became more readily available ), the need for specialized flotilla leaders decreased and their functions were adopted by all destroyers.

The last success of this squadron was at Souda Bay, Crete, when Buscaglia damaged another cruiser,, despite the anti-torpedo netting surrounding the ship, sending it out of commission for nine months while repairs were made.

Another key differentiation between older and modern vessels is that all modern warships are " soft ", without the thick armor and bulging anti-torpedo protection of WWII and older designs.

It is designed to compete with and outperform the US-built Mark 46 in the anti-submarine role, and is also available in a special MU90 Hard Kill version for anti-torpedo defence.

San Luis detected the two ships and fired two SST-4 torpedoes, one of which did not leave its tube ; the other was apparently defeated by Arrows anti-torpedo measures.

The outbreak of World War I increased the urgency to devise an effective torpedo defense system ( TDS ), thus the British Director of Naval Construction introduced the anti-torpedo bulge.

The origin of this vessel, an abandoned and burning ship's boat laden with highly flammable material, is uncertain but it may have been launched from Guerrier as the battle began.

The first long ships can trace their origin back to between 500 and 300BC, when the Danish Hjortspring boat was built.

A few words of Coptic origin are found in the Greek language ; some of these later were lent to various European languages ( e. g., barge, from Coptic bari, " small boat ").

This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing.

Dongting Lake is famous in Chinese culture as the place of origin of Dragon boat racing.

The origin of this nickname comes from the sinking of a boat called The Algerino not far from Scarborough.

# The final addition was another arc at the bottom, the " sun boat ", again made of gold from a different origin.

Some dictionaries suggest that the origin of the word could be traced to the first boat to commonly fly a spinnaker, a yacht called the Sphinx, mispronounced as Spinx.

It was and still is a very common boat in its country of origin and has been exported to other nations around the world.

:" A Times review of Navy injury reports and awards from that period in Kerry's Swift boat unit shows that many other Swift boat personnel won Purple Hearts for slight wounds of uncertain origin.

The New York Yacht Club, holders of the Cup, formally protested both that the winged keel boat was not a legal 12 Meter, and that the design itself was not of Australian origin.

The questions on her design origin were not formally answered, but the contention that the Dutch water tank team designed the boat has been refuted by both John Bertrand and Australia II project manager John Longley.

Kammersee is designated as the origin of the River Traun and can actually only be reached per boat from Toplitzsee.

He explains his origin and steps back onto his swan boat, never to return.

The origin of the name comes from Pierre Dollabarats, the Basque captain of the ship Maria de Sebourre, who had the unlucky honour of discovering the reef as his small boat wrecked on it on 7 March 1788.

Ivan van Sertima interpreted the imagery to support theories of an African origin citing, for example, what he interprets as a boat at the bottom of the scene.

However, as many boat people of Vietnam also have the Chinese origin and particularly the Cantonese one, it is often not considered as " racist ".

By 1910 the steam-driven displacement ( that is, not hydroplaning ) torpedo boat had become redundant as a separate type.

The particular name given depends on the context — the type of ship or boat, the arrangement, or even where it sails.

In 2009, Mike Richard John Smith filed a Canadian Patent application ( Canadian Patent number: 2675044 ) indicating the screw type propeller is inefficient due to the screw type blade orientation of the propeller which when in operation for forward movement substantially moves the fluid ( for a boat the fluid is water ) sidewardly, rotationally, and rearwardly wherein moving the fluid sidewardly does not move the boat forward, thus contibuting to the inefficiency of the screw type propeller.

The costs of participating in the high end large boat competitions make this type of sailing one of the most expensive sports in the world.

The precise nature of the submarine type is a matter of some controversy ; some claim that it was merely a bell towed by a boat.

The classes designed in the mid-1930s, such as the Torpedo boat type 35, had few guns, relying almost entirely upon their torpedoes.

Show skiing is a type of water skiing where skiers perform tricks somewhat similar to those of gymnasts while being pulled by the boat.

* Cornish pilot gig, a type of rowing boat

* 1 Malaika ( French type PR48-meter design ) patrol boat

By war's end, more of the Elco boats were built than any other type of motor torpedo boat ( 326 of their boats were built ).

The plentiful oyster harvests led to the development of the skipjack, the state boat of Maryland, which is the only remaining working boat type in the United States still under sail power.

The Gironde is subject to very strong tidal currents and great care is needed when navigating the estuary by any size or type of boat.

One-design racing is conducted with classes of similar boats, all built -- often via mass-production -- to the same design, so that crew ability and tactical expertise are more likely to decide a race than boat type or even weather.

* Concordia yawls, a type of sailing boat

" A definite precursor to the dory type was the early French bateau type, a flat bottom boat with straight sides used as early as 1671 on the Saint Lawrence River.

The common coastal boat of the time was the wherry and the merging of designs between the wherry type and the simplified flat bottom construction of the bateau initiated the birth of the dory.

They were " designed specifically as a ships boat but it became so well known and so common a type that it not only was used alongshore but influenced the design of some local fishing boats ".