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	Destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the beginning of the 21st century, destroyers are the heaviest surface combatant vessels in general use, with only four nations (the United States, Russia, France and Peru) operating cruisers and none operating battleships.
		The first British class to have separate cabins for officers, or a heating stove for the captain, was the River class of 1902.
		Destroyers were involved in the skirmishes that prompted the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and filled a range of roles in the Battle of Gallipoli, acting as troops transports and fire support vessels, as well as their fleet-screening role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Destroyers (4155 words)

	seaslug2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		GWS-1 Sea Slug was a moderately successful design that came into service with the Royal Navy on County Class destroyers in the 1950s.
		Used in the Falklands, for amongst other things, destroying surface targets (rumoured to include a radar system), Sea Slug was withdrawn from Royal Navy service with the County class destroyers.
		Sea Slug was the result of the development programme to meet Stage 1 of the postwar SAM programme.
	www.skomer.u-net.com /projects/seaslug.htm (200 words)

	HMS Tartar Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		These destroyers had represented a major change in design philosophy and so it was thought fitting that the new class of frigates was named after them.
		With the introduction of new frigate classes and the run down in naval strength, they were relegated to first the Standby Squadron and then listed for ultimate disposal in the 1981 Defence Review, Ashanti having been mothballed in 1979 and Tartar, the last operational ship of the class, being decommissioned in December 1980.
		Although there were rumours that Venezuela was interested in buying some of the class, the deal never materialised and it's a shame that the modernisation could not have gone forward with the ships being retained in Royal Navy service as the ships had been relegated to disposal well before the end of their useful lives.
	www.hmstartar.co.uk /fact133.htm (1574 words)

	Whitfield County
		Upon arrival, Whitfield County became flagship for LST Division 12—an assignment that soon changed when she was transferred to Division 11—and she soon commenced a regular slate of divisional and squadron exercises out of San Diego that stretched into August of 1957.
		Whitfield County worked in that locale until 1 October, when the MRB was shifted back to Dong Tarn to support projected strikes into the Western Ben Zong secret zone, Dinh Troung province, to destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in that area.
		Whitfield County subsequently shifted from Ben Tre to the Song Ham Loung anchorage and returned to Dong Tarn at 1100 on 20 January to commence turnover to Vernon County, her relief with TG 117.1.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w7/whitfield_county.htm (4996 words)

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		This requirement was partly fulfilled by the Tribal Class, although these vessels had insufficient armament and speed to act in an escort role and were consequently employed mainly in the Far East and at foreign stations.
		Whilst the hull and machinery of the Whitby Class and Rothesay Class Type 12 frigates remained largely unchanged, the superstructure was redesigned as a single block and incorporated a helicopter hanger.
		In October 1974 Ajax and the Rothesay Class frigate Rhyl rescued 250 British citizens from Cyprus in the wake of the Turkish invasion.
	members.lycos.co.uk /airmodels/Leander-Class-info.htm (6124 words)

	The Shadowrun Archive: The Royal Navy in 2057 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Several of the class have been extensively modernised, due to delays with the "Tigers" intended to replace them: unmodernised vessels are still capable, though without the newer defences they are vulnerable to the new generation of antiship missiles.
		Like the "Battle" class, they appear underarmed for their size: this is intentional, making it much easier to update or add weapons and sensors later in their lives.
		The "Battle" class frigates are similar or somewhat superior in weapon and sensor fit to most corporate vessels, the main difference being the improved sonar (including a towed array) and ASW capabilities, and the inclusion of Talon capability to allow them to strike satellite targets or ballistic missiles.
	archive.dumpshock.com /ArchiveShowArticle.php3?ID=336 (3910 words)

	Tri-ang Minic Ships - HMS Kent
		The "County" Class destroyers were the first Royal Navy ships to be fitted with guided missiles in place of guns for anti-aircraft defence.
		The "County" Class destroyers were the first ships of this size to be fitted with COSAG (Combined Steam and Gas Turbine) propulsion machinery.
		Tri-ang Minic produced identical models of the first four "County" Class destroyers HMS Devonshire, HMS Hampshire, HMS Kent and HMS London which were distinguished only by the model number and name marked on the underside.
	triangminicships.com /classic_edition/navy/kent.htm (313 words)

	Seacat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		County Class Destroyers and Cruisers Blake and Tiger after conversion to Helicopter Carriers.
		HMS Glamorgan, a County Class Destroyer, deflected an inbound Exocet with a Seacat, the sea skimming Exocet climbed as the Seacat attempted to intercept.
		The Helicopter and hanger were destroyed and the Seacat aimer was one of those killed in the blast.
	www.middle-watch.co.uk /Seacat.htm (1256 words)

	Nebula-class Star Destroyer - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
		Following the New Class practice of using the same hull for multiple configurations, the Nebula-class Star Destroyers shared their basic spaceframe design with the Endurance-class fleet carriers.
		Nebula-class Star Destroyers were equipped with a Class 1 hyperdrive, and they carried 1,600 troops and enough consumables for five to six months, depending on configuration.
		These naming conventions would imply that this Star Destroyer could be called "Obi-Wan-class"; but many warship classes (especially in the British Royal Navy, which operates a duel-naming system) are named not for a lead ship, but with a common noun that unites the names of the ships, at least in the initial batch.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Defender-class_Star_Destroyer (791 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yimmy RE:Frigate and Destroyer Win 9/5/2004 9:01:40 AM Well yeah he's got the wrong section, but the difference from a frigate and a destroyer is that a frigate is a single role platform and a destroyer is a multi-role platform.
		Thus, today, the 42 is a destroyer, as it is both equiped for area air defence, as well as carrying a sub hunting helicopter, whereas the 22s and 23s, which only have the latter (despite being superior anti-surface platforms) are frigates..
		The frigate / destroyer distinction works slightly differently in the USN, so isn't strictly relevent to this line of argument, especially when the 'frigates' you mention, DLGs, were later classified as cruisers, a change in classification strategy, the confusion arrising from attempting to classify them by WW2 standards of armament.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/6-8763.asp (1003 words)

	Worldandnation: Arms sale to Taiwan angers China
		The Kidd-class destroyers, while equipped with a much less potent ship-borne radar system than the Aegis, would be a step up for the Taiwan navy.
		Destroyers equipped with the system are capable of anti-air, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare.
		Ships in the USS Arleigh Burke class of destroyers and USS Ticonderoga class of cruisers are equipped with the Aegis system.
	www.sptimes.com /News/042401/Worldandnation/Arms_sale_to_Taiwan_a.shtml (1266 words)

	Asia Times
		The four destroyers joined the US Navy in 1981 and 1982 and were decommissioned in 1998 and 1999 after only half their service life.
		Several navy generals also assured lawmakers that the maintenance of a Kidd-class destroyer would not be a problem since the parts for the destroyer are the same as parts for other vessels that the navy already owns.
		In response to the charge that the destroyers would be expensive to maintain, the navy said it would only spend NT$1.65 billion a year on the four destroyers.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DJ23Ad04.html (1039 words)

	Military conversion
		With the objective to optimize the capacity of the existing units before the multiple necessities of their owners, ASMAR has developed important projects of conversion and modernisation of military ships, which have constituted highly cost-effective solutions and, consequently, has extended the life span of these ships.
		The objective of this project consisted, mainly, in transforming the County Class Destroyers of the Chilean Navy (DLG) into helicopters carriers (DLH) by means of extending and reinforcing the flight deck of the ships to operate with two heavy helicopters, providing a double hangar for the airships.
		The conversion project of Leander Class Frigates of the Chilean Navy considered the extension and reinforcing of the flight deck to operate with one heavy helicopter, the provision of larger hangar and the installation of the Canadian helicopter retrieving and transfer system 'Assist'.
	www.asmar.cl /English/serv/serv_mil_conv.html (280 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		This class was the first to break with design practices that had developed as a result of the London Treaty of 1930.
		They were larger in size than any previous class of destroyers and when full y loaded carried the fuel, ammunition, and stores needed for extensive sea duty in the Pacific.
		[2] Destroyers did not have the glamour of a battleship or an aircraft carrier but without them the aircraft carrier and battleship would be helpless against enemy submarines.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/thesullivans.htm (737 words)

	829 naval air squadron - Helicopter Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It took on the Wessex HAS.1 County class (Guided Missile Destroyer) flights in 1964 and handed off Wasp conversion training to 706 Squadron in Dec 1964, just prior to the move to Portland.
		The Wessex HAS.3, which replaced the HAS.1s from Jun 1969 on the County class destroyers, were given back to 737 Squadron in Jun 1970.
		Initial conversion and training was relieved from the unit when 703 Squadron reformed in Jan 1972 but was taken back in Jan 1981 when 703 was re-absorbed and the focus shifted elsewhere to introducing the Lynx HAS.2 into service and beginning the run down of the Wasp.
	www.helis.com /database/go/uk_829_naval_air_squadron.php (433 words)

	County class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The County class was a class of guided missile destroyers, the first such vessels built by the Royal Navy.
		The County class were designed around the GWS.1 SeaSlug beam riding anti-aircraft missile system.
		In 1996 all Counties were fitted with the Israeli anit-aircraft missile Barak, replacing the Seacat system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County_class_destroyer (890 words)

	Looking Back at Sukarno's Navy
		The Ton class was lightly armed with one 40mm Bofors gun and a twin 20mm Oerlikon, with a maximum speed of 15 knots (operational speed normally 13).
		The Ton class sweeper's operational speed of 13 knots did not always give a significant speed advantage and the process of searching suspect vessels usually relied on being able to outrun the suspect vessel or encouraging it to stop so that it could be caught and searched.
		Although previously classed as unarmed merchant ships and therefore having access to any commercial port, the fitting of a helicopter, which was classed as a weapon, changed this.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Borneo/SukarnoNavy.html (3989 words)

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		Japan has a force of destroyers that are highly capable in anti-surface and anti-submarine operations.
		The United Kingdom is working on a class of two new carriers in the 50,000-ton range, the Queen Elizabeth class, and France may buy one as well (due to major problems keeping the de Gaulle operational).
		The centerpiece of its Navy is the cruiser Almirante Grau, a former Dutch vessel with eight six-inch guns and eight Otomat anti-ship missiles.
	www.strategypage.com /fyeo/howtomakewar/docs/htworld.htm (6770 words)

	Sheffield Class Type 42 Destroyers
		The principle role of the Sheffield Class Type 42 destroyers is to provide area air defence for a task force and since their introduction into service they have constituted the fleet's principle anti-air warfare capability.
		Unlike the Type 82 Destroyer, the Type 42 was designed and built with both a helicopter deck and hanger and one of its most versatile weapons is the Lynx helicopter.
		During the Falklands Conflict (1982) this was a major problem as HMS Sheffield was destroyed not by the detonation of the exocet missile, but by the fires that spread through the ship at a rapid rate.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/type42.htm (2278 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Military -- Navy may mothball entire Spruance class of destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The destroyers, including five based in San Diego, might be cut to make money available for other programs, such as fixing the problems of aging naval aircraft, England said in an interview at his Pentagon office.
		The destroyers, which are 20 to 25 years old, had been scheduled for decommissioning between 2006 and 2011, a Navy official said.
		England said the decision to retire the Spruance-class destroyers does not mean the Navy will cut its surface warfare force, and noted the plan to revise the DD-21 program to provide a larger, more varied group of warships.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/military/20011123-9999_1n23spruance.html (609 words)

	GDR 99 - South American Issues
		As the region's navies emerge from a period of economic turbulence and dictatorship they are re-focusing on the protection of traditional economic and security interests and this has generated requirements for new equipment.
		There are six destroyers, two Hercules-class (RN Type 42) commissioned in 1976 and 1981, and four Almirante Brown (German MEKO 360) destroyers, all commissioned between 1983 and 1984.
		There is no submarine capability but it operates three frigates of the General Artigas class (ex-French Navy Cdt Rivere class) commissioned in the early 1960s and recommissioned into the Uruguayan Navy between 1989 and 1991.
	www.global-defence.com /1999/sam/sam1.htm (1262 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - Destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The County class destroyers were large vessels built by the Royal Navy around the Sea Slug anti-aircraft missile system.
		Royal Navy practice starting from about 1890 (and used seriously from around 1910) has been to allocate class names on an alphabetic basis, with the relevant letters (and in many cases names) being re-used.
		Sometimes the newer class is known by the name of the first ship completed rather than the letter as an aid to reducing confusion.
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/section/3/24 (471 words)

	Type 82 destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Type 82 or Bristol class destroyer was to be a class of four Royal Navy warships intended as area air-defence destroyers to replace the County class destroyers, and to serve as escorts to the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers.
		Sometimes described as a "cruiser", she was officially classified as a destroyer as the former term had fallen out of favour with governments keen to reduce manpower-intensive cruisers and aircraft carriers.
		The role which the Type 82 was built for never materialised and as such she spent most of her service in the 1970s trialling and building up experience using the new weapons and computer systems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Type_82_destroyer (1584 words)

	HMS FIFE, and 5 years in the Royal Navy
		During this particular year, 1978 (I think) we went over to the States with another of the County Class Destroyers - HMS London.
		During quieter moments, the quarter deck was a favourite place for a spot of sun bathing.
		I remember, that this was the first of the "new" ships that would replace the County Class destroyers.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife/fifesea.htm (392 words)

	I Class Destroyers
		Destroyer website dedicated to the history of HMS Inglefield, HMS Icarus, HMS Ilex, HMS Imogen, HMS Imperial, HMS Impulsive, HMS Intrepid, HMS Isis and HMS Ivanhoe from their launch to their participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of I Class destroyers.
		After " Ivanhoe" was destroyed by a mine and later killed by HMS Kelvin, the gig probably drifted around and was taken by the Germans.
		Inglefield (I) Class destroyers, Message Board for naval enthusiasts and crew descendents of Inglefield (I) Class Destroyers.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /i_class.htm (1774 words)

	Pictures: It's Your History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 'Highflyer' a 20-knot light class cruiser with a length of 350 feet and a displacement of 5600 tons carried eleven 6-inch guns, nine 3-inch, one 3-pounder, two machine-guns, and two torpedo-tubes.
		She was built at Clydebank in the early 1890's, refitted at Portsmouth in 1914 and renamed HMS Redoubtable in 1915.
		Berkshire and the War is a unique record of a county's contribution to the First World War.
	www.its-your-history.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Pictures.82.0.html (800 words)

	Modern Edition - Type 42 Batch 1 Destroyer
		The Type 42 destroyers were designed principally to provide air defence for a task force, replacing the County Class destroyers which were becoming increasingly expensive to operate, but they are also utilised to engage surface and anti-submarine targets.
		All the ships were named after large British cities, commemorating many of the Town Class cruisers that fought with such distinction in the Second World War.
		The Type 42 destroyers are fitted with controllable pitch propellers and are powered by two Rolls-Royce Tyne Engines which provide a cruising speed of 18 knots.
	www.triangminicships.com /modern_edition/rn/p740_main.htm (396 words)

	COUNTY class destroyer
		This photo shows the Seaslug launcher at the stern to good effect, and also the Type 901 Seaslug tracker radar can be seen atop the hangar.
		As one of the last four of the class, she is fitted with the Type 965 AKE-2 "double-bedstead" radar antenna on the aft mast.
		The Type 965 AKE-1 "single-bedstead" radar, typical of the first four members of the class, is atop the aft mast.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/rn/destroyers/county (571 words)

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