Destroyer Battles

Epics of Naval Close Combat

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  • Fast,
  • manoeuvrable
  • and
  • heavily
  • armed,
  • destroyers
  • were
  • the
  • most
  • aggressive
  • surface
  • warships
  • of
  • the
  • twentieth
  • century.
  • Although
  • originally
  • conceived
  • as
  • a
  • defensive
  • screen
  • to
  • protect
  • the
  • main
  • battlefleet
  • from
  • torpedo
  • attack,
  • the
  • gamekeeper
  • soon
  • turned
  • poacher,
  • and
  • became
  • primarily
  • a
  • weapon
  • of
  • offence.
  • As
  • such
  • they
  • were
  • involved
  • in
  • many
  • hard-fought
  • battles,
  • using
  • both
  • torpedoes
  • and
  • guns,
  • especially
  • with
  • enemy
  • vessels
  • of
  • the
  • same
  • kind.
  • This
  • book
  • recounts
  • some
  • of
  • the
  • most
  • significant,
  • spectacular
  • or
  • unusual
  • actions
  • in
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • destroyer
  • warfare,
  • from
  • the
  • first
  • employment
  • of
  • torpedo
  • craft
  • during
  • the
  • Russo-Japanese
  • War
  • to
  • the
  • recent
  • terrorist
  • attack
  • on
  • USS
  • Cole.
  • With
  • individual
  • chapters
  • devoted
  • to
  • each
  • incident,
  • the
  • book
  • may
  • be
  • read
  • as
  • a
  • series
  • of
  • dramatic
  • narratives,
  • but
  • each
  • reflects
  • a
  • development
  • in
  • the
  • tactics
  • or
  • technology,
  • so
  • taken
  • as
  • a
  • whole
  • the
  • book
  • amounts
  • to
  • a
  • complete
  • history
  • of
  • the
  • destroyer
  • from
  • an
  • unusual
  • and
  • previously
  • neglected angle.
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