An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.

A destroyer fires on Axis positions while Commandos carry out landings on the beach during Operation Husky

An American destroyer fires depth charges at Sea Tiger, but Sherman shoots the nurses ' underwear out a torpedo tube.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' mounting installed just aft of the Otobreda 76 mm | 76 mm gun turret on the Japanese Self Defense Force Asagiri class destroyer DD 158 Umigiri, photographed 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' reload doors are visible in this photograph of the Japanese Asagiri class destroyer Asagiri, formerly DD 151, renumbered TV 3516 after reclassification as a training vessel, seen here on 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

This immediately caused confusion with those senior U. S. Navy captains commanding destroyer squadrons, submarine squadrons, functional air wings and air groups, and so on, who held the temporary " title " of commodore.

" Stating that he had originally been strong and healthy, he continued, " life on a destroyer in winter, with bad food, no comforts, would sap the powers of the strongest men in the long run.

The first shot of the war at sea was fired on 5 August 1914 by a destroyer of the 2nd Flotilla,, in an engagement with the German auxiliary minelayer.

The first submarine casualty to a destroyer was the German, rammed by on 29 October 1914.

He was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1937 and was then given command of the destroyer in June 1939.

The two survivors were finally evacuated by a U. S. Navy destroyer on January 31, 1942.

Gregory Nagy, on the other hand, sees both Persēs (" the destroyer ": / perthō ) and Hēsiodos (" he who emits the voice :" / hiēmi + / audē ) as fictitious names for poetical personae.

Shortly after Bernard Montgomery had been appointed to command II Corps, Alexander was, while still on the beachhead, placed in command of I Corps, and left the beach on the last destroyer on 3 June after ensuring that all British troops had been evacuated.

The German naval trawler carrying the team crashed on the rocks just off Jan Mayen after a patrolling British destroyer had picked them up on radar.

Its popularity became truly evident in 1982 during the Falklands War when sailors aboard the destroyer HMS Sheffield, severely damaged in an Argentinean Exocet missile attack on 4 May, started singing it while awaiting rescue.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet designers started work on an anti-satellite weapon, called the " Istrebitel Sputnik ", which meant literally, interceptor of satellites, or destroyer of satellites.

On 24 August 1975 their frogmen planted a mine on the river's bed below the hull of a navy destroyer, the ARA Santísima Trinidad, as she remained docked at Rio Santiago before her commissioning.

alt = Starboard bow view of a guided-missile destroyer and naval auxiliary vessel seaming together in formation on a calm sea.

The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer on October 12, 2000, while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemen port of Aden.

Al-Qaeda had previously attempted a similar but less publicized attack on the U. S. Navy destroyer while in port at Aden, Yemen, on January 3, 2000, as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.

( This scene was based on an actual incident in World War II: Commander Howard W. Gilmore, USN, after being seriously wounded in an encounter with a Japanese destroyer, ordered his men to abandon him on deck and submerge to save the ship and crew.

While capital ship engagements were scarce in World War I, destroyer units were almost continually engaged in raiding and patrol actions.

Polish Navy | Polish destroyer ORP Błyskawica | ORP Błyskawica, currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia.

His ship was a new destroyer which he was to sail to Singapore and exchange for an older ship, HMS Wishart.

File: US Navy 090812-N-7498L-119 Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Justin Varner, from Camby, Texas, prepares an M-240 machine gun aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS O ' Kane ( DDG 77 ) as the ship prepares to defend from small boat attacks. jpg | Ship-mounted, aboard a US Navy destroyer

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 ".

* USS New England ( AD-32 ), a ship originally planned as a submarine tender ( AS-28 ), laid down as a destroyer tender ( AD-32 ) in 1944, and cancelled in 1945 prior to launching

On 26 December 2008, the PLAN dispatched a task group consisting of the guided missile destroyer Haikou ( flagship ), the guided missile destroyer Wuhan, and the supply ship Weishanhu to the Gulf of Aden to participating in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia.

* The first, a four-stack Clemson-class destroyer, was the first US Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II.

* A letter for the type of ship the reactor is intended for (" A " for aircraft carrier, " C " for cruiser, " D " for destroyer, and " S " for submarine )

His device worked as designed, but only from a wooden ship, not a metal one like a destroyer, and attempts, at the U. S. Navy's insistence, to get it to work on a metal ship failed.

Coming into Seattle, Washington, President Harding's transport ship, USS Henderson, accidentally rammed into a U. S. naval destroyer due to fog.

** Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak ; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.

Vostrikov is informed that a helicopter is approaching ; he and some of the crew climb out onto the deck, thinking a Russian ship has come to save them, only to discover that it is a US Navy helicopter from a nearby US destroyer.

* Spanish destroyer Terror, a ship that fought in the Spanish – American War

The Liberty ship SS Robert E. Peary, the destroyer USS Peary ( DD-226 ) the cargo ship USNS Robert E. Peary ( T-AKE-5 ), Knox-class frigate USS Robert E. Peary ( FF 1073 ) and ice rated, US-flagged tanker Maersk Peary were named for him.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.

The desire to attack submarines underwater led to rapid destroyer evolution during the war, which were quickly equipped with strengthened bows for ramming, depth charges and hydrophones for identifying submarine targets.

The Le Fantasque class of 1935 carried five 138 mm ( 5. 4 in ) guns and nine torpedo tubes, but could achieve speeds of, which remains the record speed for a steamship and for any destroyer.

The East Pakistan Navy had only one active-duty combatant destroyer, the PNS Sylhet ; one submarine Ghazi ( which was repeatedly deployed in West ); four gunboats, inadequate to function in deep water.

In one, his father told him about the USS Cole bombing, to which Lindh replied that since the American destroyer was in the Yemen harbor, it was an act of war against Islam and therefore justified.

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.

The Canal was then reopened by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat aboard an Egyptian destroyer which led the first convoy Northbound to Port Said in 1975.

* was a Wickes-class destroyer, which was launched in 1919 and stricken in 1945.

* USS William C. Cole ( DE-641 ) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, which was launched in 1943 and stricken in 1972.

The destroyer drops depth charges, snapping a fuel line, which catches fire and kills the entire engineering crew.

They spot an aircraft, and Mazzola-against Tyler's orders-tries to convince Rabbit to fire on the plane with the deck gun, which appears to be coming in for an attack, but is only scouting for a German destroyer named the Anschluss.

* October 28 – The alleged date of The Philadelphia Experiment, in which the U. S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period.

* July 23 – WWII Italian planes damege the destroyer HMS Fearless ( H67 ) which has to be sunk by the British.

* Surface combatant-large, heavily armed surface ships which are designed primarily to engage enemy forces on the high seas, including various types of battleship, battlecruiser, cruiser, destroyer, and frigate.

During the landing operations on August 7 and August 8, Japanese naval aircraft based at Rabaul, under the command of Sadayoshi Yamada, attacked the Allied amphibious forces several times, setting afire the transport USS George F. Elliot ( which sank two days later ) and heavily damaging the destroyer.

At the top of the Hindu philosophy is the formless, undefined Brahman, from whom / which come the different forms and deities, the foremost of which is the Trimurti: Brahma ( the creator ), Vishnu ( the sustainer ) and Shiva ( the destroyer ), and their individual ' Shakti ' ( commonly defined as their wives, but also goddesses in their own right ): Saraswati the goddess of learning, Lakshmi the goddess of all forms of wealth, and Parvati ( also known as Durga, Shakti, Ambika ) the goddess of courage and power.

In Hinduism, the god Shiva is simultaneously destroyer and creator, portrayed as Shiva Nataraja ( Lord of the Dance ), which is proposed as the source of the Western notion of " creative destruction ".

The origins of the name probably lie in the Sanskrit word " kalka " which refers to mud, dirt, filth, or foulness and hence denotes the " destroyer of foulness ," " destroyer of confusion ," " destroyer of darkness ," or " annihilator of ignorance.

The Defoe Shipbuilding Company, which ceased operations December 31, 1975 built destroyer escorts, guided missile destroyers, and patrol craft for the United States Navy.