They are subversive and wild, they are fierce and strong.

You got battlewagons, cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers.

Then how come they hunt Uboats with three destroyers workin' together up in the North Atlantic?

We're sending six destroyers through the Navarone Channel next Tuesday to take the men off Kheros.

For example, the French chose to build super destroyers which were deemed during the Second World War by the Allies as the equivalent of light cruisers.

Later on the morning of 12 October, four Japanese destroyers from the supply convoy turned back to assist Gotō's retreating, damaged warships.

Only nine destroyers were sunk by air attack in 1940, out of a force of over 100 operating in British waters at the time.

In the early stages of the war, the Turkish government had already ordered four submarines, four destroyers, twelve landing craft and aircraft for four flights from the United Kingdom.

Since November 2007, following a series of pirate raids, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, and France deployed naval frigates to escort WFP aid ships safely into harbor.

The next significant change was during the early 1970s, when Greece was the first Mediterranean naval force to order missile equipped Fast Attack Craft (Combattante II) and the Type 209 submarines, whereas US military aid continued in the form of FRAM II class destroyers.