destroyer

The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 Tomahawk missiles.

He was in the forward gun turret where the destroyer hit us.

During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer.

He was not a destroyer seeking to become exceptional by killing.

Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause.

But the rumble of distant guns told the destroyer that his short-lived hour of triumph was nearly sped.

Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.

When the Turks saw a destroyer come bustling up at an unusual hour they said to themselves, "fee faw fum!"

Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise.

The great mission of the submarine during the European war was as a commerce destroyer.