Spruance-class destroyer, the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s
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Three River-class destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy were laid down in British yards, with a further three built in Australia.
On 17 February 1915, the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) passed a navy law authorising a large programme of construction for the Spanish Navy, including three destroyers of British design, the Alsedo class, to be built in Spain at the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) dockyard at Cartagena.
The Aventurier class was a class of four destroyers of the French Navy launched in 1911, and used during the First World War.
The Ayanami class was a destroyer class built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in the late 1950s.The primary purpose was anti-submarine warfare, so this class was classified as "DDK" (hunter-killer anti-submarine destroyer) unofficially.
The US Navy's first torpedo boat destroyers were produced on the recommendation of an 1898 war plans board formed to prosecute the Spanish-American War and chaired by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt.
Somewhat circuitously, Ouragan was first transferred to the Free Polish Navy.
The other four ships planned for the C class were never ordered as an economy measure and disarmament gesture by the Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald.
Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.
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Four ships of this class were transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1992, but those have also been decommissioned.
Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy.
Type 45 destroyer, a class of Royal Navy air defence destroyers, launched from 2006 to 2010
The Type 45 destroyers, launched from 2006 onwards, are also known as the Daring class.
In the early 1920s, the Royal Swedish Navy operated 10 destroyers and 29 first class torpedo boats.
:Disabled by British destroyers on 16 April 1941 during the Battle of the Tarigo Convoy, she ran aground with 141 of her 205 crew killed in action, but she was later salvaged and put back into service.
The Friesland Class destroyers were built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1950s.
After the end of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff issued requirements for a destroyer with a maximum speed of 39 knots, range of 4000 nautical miles at 14 knots, and armed with large numbers of the recently developed Type 8 torpedoes.
Four surviving ships from the Pacific Fleet were transferred to the People's Liberation Army Navy and served as the Anshan class destroyers.
It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy.
They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).
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The Halland class destroyers were two ships built for the Swedish Navy in the 1950s.
Hunt-class destroyer, escort destroyers which served in the Second World War
They were named after British fox hunts.
The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy (MMI) after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.
The Impetuoso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy.
The limitations of the SS-N-1 Missile were clear by 1965 and the Soviet navy decided to convert the ships to a more general purpose / ASW role.
All four have been transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy under the Kuang Hua VII program.
L and M-class destroyer or Laforey class, a class of 16 Royal Navy destroyers launched from 1939 to 1941
L and M-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched 1939–1942 and that served in World War II
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Marcilio Dias-class destroyer, three ships of the Brazilian Navy that served in World War II
In the movie "Run Silent, Run Deep" Run Silent, Run Deep the US submarine Nerka attacks and sinks a Japanese destroyer called Momo.
The mountain has lent its name to a series of naval ships and ship classes: the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1877 ironclad Kongō; the 1912 battleship Kongō, the name ship of her class; and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's current destroyer Kongō (DDG-173), also the name ship of her class.
This design bore similarities to Syd Mead's design of the Leonov, a fictional Russian space ship that appeared in the 1984 movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
She was given to the French Navy as a war reparation, where she served as the D'Estaing until 1954
Three Q class ships were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy upon completion, with two further ships being handed over in 1945.
The Hazemeyer design had been brought to Britain by the Dutch minelayer Willem van der Zaan that escaped German occupation in May 1940.
S and T-class destroyer, a class of 16 destroyers, launched in 1942 and 1943
Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1898), a Ikazuchi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy in Russo-Japanese War
The Shirane class are also the first Japanese ships to be fitted with 3D radars, the NEC OPS-12.
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On 27 October 2009, the JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan.
Initially the shields were made from Duralumin to save weight, but these quickly corroded and had to be replaced.
A third version, Project 956EM, later developed for the People's Liberation Army Navy was the latest development of this class.Chinese media called the ship "carrier killer".
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The ship's helicopter pad and telescopic hangar accommodates one Kamov Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter, NATO codename Helix.
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In 2006, the extra spheres (painted white as the mid-2006) added atop of the superstructures of the Chinese ships appearing in latest photographs of the Chinese units have shown that these Chinese ships had been upgraded with the domestic HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded) and SATCOM (probably the SNTI-240).
Turbine, Aquilone and Nembo took part in the shelling of Sollum on 14 June 1940.
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On 3 July 1942, while escorting three freighters from Taranto to Benghazi along with the Navigatori class destroyer Da Verrazzano, Euro and Turbine shot down two Beaufort bombers.
U and V-class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943
V and W-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers built late in World War I
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W and Z-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched in 1943–1944
This problem proved fatal for Battleaxe, when she was unable to manoeuvre quickly enough to prevent herself being rammed by the frigate HMS Ursa in the Clyde in 1962.
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Tomahawk was renamed after Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham had remarked about his sadness at the loss of a ship of this name after the S-class destroyer, Scorpion, was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy.