Type of warship

Usage examples of destroyer.

But then Captain Alima had come with his Star Destroyer and forced Nadon to reveal the secrets of Ithorian technology to the Empire.

Nadon replayed his first memories of Alima, captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer Conquest.

Winslow, the old Spruance-class destroyer which had accompanied the Marine amphib ships close into shore.

At 0458, just as daylight began to spread over the sea, destroyer Maddox, on antisubmarine patrol several miles off shore, was attacked by a Stuka.

According to our satellites, the Args often have two destroyers plus two frigates in there.

Falkland Sound, in the hours before the British destroyer was sunk by Argentinian bombs.

Guadalcanal by tossing fifty-five-gallon drums of avgas over the side of those old four-stacker War One destroyers and letting the tide float it ashore.

Rounding a Turn of the uphill road, they looked out on a broad panorama of the base: docks, cranes, nests of destroyers and of submarines-and the terrible smashed half-sunk battleships, burned-out aircraft, and blackened skeletal hangars.

At least eight carriers, perhaps ten battleships, only God could know how many cruisers, destroyers, submarines!

And now for the first time he broke radio silence to inform admiral Yamamoto, idling three hundred miles away with the seven battleships and one carrier of the Main Body, that he was heading to destroy an enemy force of one carrier, five cruisers, and five destroyers.

That was why the Main Striking Force under Vice Admiral Kurita two new monster battleships, the biggest and most powerful in the world with three other battleships and many cruisers and destroyers -laid off Singapore, so as to have access to the oil of Java and Borneo.

It named four battleships, including the Iowa and the New Jersey, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and fourteen destroyers.

The six fast battleships, with cruisers and destroyers, were to rush ahead, still farther northward, to engage the Jap carriers if they showed up by daylight within gunfire range.

One by one, hour after hour, the destroyers pulled up alongside the battleships to fuel.

For a Navy Yard captain swamped by destroyers, carriers, even battleships crowding in with kamikaze damage, an old crippled submarine was a low-priority customer.