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destroyerSmall, fast warship designed for antisubmarine work. Destroyers played a critical role in the convoy system in World War II. Originally termed ‘torpedo-boat destroyers’, they were designed by Britain to counter the large flotillas built by the French and Russian navies in the late 19th century. They proved so effective that torpedo-boats were more or less abandoned in the early 1900s, but the rise of the submarine found a new task for the ‘destroyer’. They proved invaluable as anti-submarine vessels in both World War I and World War II.
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| I've got a destroyer, one of the new type--forty knots an hour, a dear little row of four-inch guns, and, my God A servant of mine having taken a resolution to free the country from this destroyer, went out one day with two lances, and after he had been some time in quest of him, found him with his mouth all smeared with the blood of a cow he had just devoured; the man rushed upon him, and thrust his lance into his throat with such violence that it came out between his shoulders; the beast, with one dreadful roar, fell down into a pit, and lay struggling, till my servant despatched him. And so I could not bring myself to believe that such a gallant tale had been left maimed and mutilated, and I laid the blame on Time, the devourer and destroyer of all things, that had either concealed or consumed it. |
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