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...cruiser, with some armor and heavier guns, was in a better position than a destroyer to control and support the attack. Light cruisers also were useful indepen ...n was that it was larger and had better sea-keeping characteristics than a destroyer, so it could escort carriers under any weather conditions.

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...bat, by [[fast attack craft]], to sink a conventional warship, the Israeli destroyer ''Eilat'' in 1967. The missile exists in a number of variants.

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[[Image:Type 45 Destroyer.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Type-45 class ''HMS Daring'']] ...the cancelled European Horizon destroyer program, which continues as the [[Destroyer#Franco-Italian HORIZON SAS|French-Italian HORIZON program]].

...'' (CVE-25) and destroyers of the ''Fletcher'' and "Four-Pipe, Flush-Deck" destroyer classes at the next pier.</ref>]]

...7-1938, and served as naval attaché in Rome and Belgrade, then commanded a destroyer squadron at the end of 1941. He commanded a cruiser-destroyer group, under [[Frank Jack Fletcher]], at the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]].

* four small destroyer escorts: [[USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)]], USS Dennis, USS J.C. Butler, a

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The [[Spruance-class]] destroyer ''USS Oldendorf'' (DD-972) was named for him. One might speculate that he w

.... [[Kiyohide Shima]] was among his classmates. He was given command of a [[destroyer]] at the age of 27. <ref name=Tully>{{citation ...ino, the only surviving ship commander in Force C, "[Nishimura] was an old destroyer man. I never met Nishimura personally, but it was said of him that he was c

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...the situation in Norway, the [[G-class (U.K. destroyer)|G-class]] fleet [[destroyer]] '''''HMS Glowworm''''', on April 8, 1940, came out of a rain squall and c

...e of oceanworthy but nimble ship emerged, first called the '''torpedo boat destroyer'''. ...and could not accompany an ocean fleet, but the new class, now called '''[[destroyer]]''', now had both offensive and defensive capabilities.

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...rchant ship]]s and [[warship]]s, but was particularly known for building [[destroyer]]s. At the dawn of [[World War II]], it was one of the country's five large