Tin cans, so to speak

Usage examples of destroyers.

To listen to foreign naval signals, the Navy had to stick its analysts in awkward, antenna-covered mobile vans placed aboard destroyers and destroyer escorts.

Luke had R2-D2 send the coordinates of the shy cruiser to the Star Destroyers for a subspace relay back to Saba, then opened a channel to both the Sabers and Shockers.

The tactical display showed the New Republic Star Destroyers decelerating alongside the escape corridor in staggered positions, each retaining an escort of a single frigate and two squadrons of short-range starfighters.

Star Destroyers along here, we can wipe out their blockade and be gone with the convoy before they can react.

But you must know what the loss of three Star Destroyers would mean to us.

They were too close to Talfaglio for a microjump, and with two Star Destroyers moving up to support the New Republic, the yammosk had to realize that any hope of punching through to the escape corridor was gone.

What was new was that the new Star Destroyers lacked the telltale projector domes of most Interdictor ships.

New Republic fleet - including all of the Star Destroyers and most of the cruisers - were peeling away from the ship tenders and fanning out toward the far edge of the Bantha.

Star Destroyers were belching fire and falling away one after another.

Through the flotsam cloud, Mara could see half a dozen Star Destroyers and perhaps twenty or thirty smaller vessels using their turbolasers to clear an exit path, but even they were barely crawling.

Over the years, serious questions have been raised about the alleged attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats on two American destroyers in the Gulf.

Still closer, and Soviet destroyers and patrol boats began harassment exercises, darting in and out toward the bobbing trawler, sometimes closing to within twenty-five yards before veering away.

Occasionally the Seventh Fleet had destroyers waiting over the horizon.

Unlike the dedicated Sigint ships, which were virtually unarmed and unthreatening in appearance, the heavily armed destroyers were designed to be threatening and their presence was provocative.

Litton Industries and to hand to the Navy at least two destroyers ordered by the Shah of Iran.