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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fletcher class destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fletcher class was the largest class of destroyer ordered, and was also one of the most successful and popular with the destroyer men themselves.
		The USS Charrette (DD-581) was a Fletcher class destroyer built at the Boston Naval Shipyard and commissioned in the United States Navy on May 18, 1943.
		Fletcher class destroyers were the first to break with design practices that had developed as a result of the London Treaty of 1930.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fletcher-class-destroyer (5874 words)

	J and K class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The J and K class was a class of sixteen destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy launched in 1938.
		They were heavy torpedo destroyers, designed to be cheaper than the destroyers of the Tribal class.
		Eleven of the sixteen ships of the class were sunk in action, by dive bombers, torpedo planes, U-boats and mines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J_and_K_class_destroyer (149 words)

	J, K and N class destroyer Information
		1 x quad tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX The J, K and N class was a class of 24 destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1938.
		Despite the vulnerability of the boiler layout, the design was to prove compact, strong and very successful, forming the basis of all Royal Navy destroyer construction from the O class up to the Cr class of 1944.
		The high-speed destroyer mine sweeps were replaced with a rack and two throwers for 45 depth charges and Radar Type 286 air warning was added at the masthead alongside Radar Type 285 fire control on the H/A rangefinder-director.
	www.bookrags.com /J%2C_K_and_N_class_destroyer (988 words)

	destroyer - Encyclopedia.com
		destroyer class of warship very fast relative to its length, generally equipped with torpedos, antisubmarine equipment, and medium-caliber and antiaircraft guns.
		The destroyer, originally called the torpedo-boat destroyer, was introduced in 1892 as an answer to the torpedo boat, but it rapidly replaced that type by taking over its functions.
		Destroyers were of great importance in World War II; equipped with new electronic devices, they proved highly effective as antisubmarine weapons and, hence, as escorts for convoys.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-destroye.html (734 words)

	Wickes class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wickes-class destroyers were destroyers authorized by 1916 Congressional funding to build a "fleet second to none".
		The basic requirement for the class was a possible speed of 35 knots.
		A number of this class were transferred to Britain in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wickes_class_destroyer (170 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: HMS St. James (D65) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		James (D65) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
		She was named in honour of the Battle of St. James Day which took place in 1666.
		James was involved in an unfortunate incident, when during gunnery exercises, she sunk a tug, the Buccaneer, which was towing the destroyer's target.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-St.-James-%28D65%29 (386 words)

	Destroyer - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
		Destroyers (with a DD hull classification symbol) primarily perform anti-submarine warfare duty while guided missile destroyers (DDGs) are multi-mission (anti-submarine, anti-aircraft, and anti-surface warfare) surface combatants.
		The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former being optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Destroyer (1213 words)

	Deans Marine H.M.S Javelin. 'J'Class Destroyer
		The J class destroyers were ordered in March 1937 under the 1936 Defence Estimates and were intended as a follow on from the Tribal class of ships.
		The first of the J class was laid down in 1937, to be followed by the K class in 1937-38 and N class in 1939-40.
		Like the Tribal class, the J’s were sent to theatres of the fiercest fighting and subsequently suffered heavy losses.
	www.model-dockyard.com /deans/javelin.htm (282 words)

	Victory class Destroyer: Babylon 5 Tech-Manual.
		The Victory class Destroyer was conceived by President John J. Sheridan of the
		This decision was based upon the Victory class Destroyer's impressive performance during the battle with the Drakh, and the fact that it would take months to grow and merge Vorlon bio-armor over the hull of the new Destroyer...
		The Victory herself, the namesake of this new class of warship, was destroyed when she rammed the bridge of a Shadow planet killer.
	www.b5tech.com /isa/excalibur/excalibur.html (1114 words)

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		The first Tucker (Destroyer No. 67) was laid down on 9 November 1914 at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Mass., launched on 4 May 1916; sponsored by Mrs.
		Thus, American destroyers were progressively transferred to the eastern Atlantic to augment the escort forces already operating in that war zone.
		The American destroyer soon arrived on the scene and helped to save the survivors of the stricken French warship from the waters of the Bay of Biscay.
	sir.real.50megs.com /ammann/Photos/ammann-05.htm (959 words)

	HyperWar: Battle off Samar Island - CTG 77.4
		At about 0417 Destroyer Division XRAY was ordered to report to the Officer in Tactical Command, and at 0432 to proceed south, intercept enemy formation heading north and attack with torpedoes.
		The enemy forces, believed to consist of at least two battleships, a heavy cruiser, four light cruisers and ten destroyers, was engaged in battle by Task Group 77.2 in Surigao strait and was successfully repelled with extremely heavy and severe losses.
		Destroyer Division XRAY received orders from ComTaskGroup 77.2 at 0132 to proceed south down the Strait to conduct a torpedo attak on the retiring enemy units, and upon completion of attack retire to the north up the Strait hugging the coast line all the way.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/rep/Leyte/CTG-77.4.html (2449 words)

	USN Ships--USS Barry (Destroyer # 2)
		USS Barry, a 420-ton Bainbridge class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		With four of her sister destroyers, Barry steamed across the Atlantic, transited the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal and crossed the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea between December 1903 and April 1904.
		Destroyers awaiting decommissioning in the Navy Yard's Reserve Basin, during the Spring of 1919.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/dd2.htm (606 words)

	The Movie Channel The Movie Channel
		The Rescue sub in the film apears to be SSK 73 RCN Onondaga which was a Royal Canadian Navy Submarine of the Ojibwa Class (Improved British Oberon Class or Super O's) which was launched on September 25 1965 (4 years after the K-19 incident).
		The submarine that ties up along side K-19 and rescues the crew appears to be an Oberon Class (British Royal Navy class name, may differ elsewhere) diesel submarine with the sonar dome near the bow removed.
		The American destroyer was actually an 'Improved Restigouche' Class Canadian destroyer escort which was decommissioned in the mid-'90s.
	www.sho.com /site/tmc/movies/movie_details.do?episodeid=118978&seriesid=0&include=00trivia.inc (499 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The destroyer was underway again on December 9th and made rendezvous with other ship of Destroyer Division 15,16, and 17 with their destination Tokyo, Japan.
		From 24 October until 17 November Destroyer Division 102 was assigned to the Destroyer Air Defense Training Group (TG 83.8) for a training exercise to improve destroyer air defense capability and readiness.
		At the close of the year DENNIS J. BUCKLEY was continuing her active support of the Seventh Fleet commitments to the war effort by her naval gunfire support in the South Vietnam area.
	www.djbuckley.com /history.htm (10035 words)

	Star Destroyer Names: Lists J, K & L
		This Victory Star Destroyer along with the ISD Bellicose were sent to assist the Interdictor Cruiser Restrainer, which had trapped the MC80a Liberty when it was returning from a mission in nominally held Imperial space after the Battle of Yavin.
		The ISD Adjucator was captured by the Rebels at the Battle of Endor, and renamed the Liberator.
		The Lusankya was later scrapped, because, according to Mon Mothma, the Super Star Destroyer was a symbol of the Empire, and was not part of the New Republic's beliefs.
	www.hyperjump.net /swguides/sdguide/sdlistjl.html (1677 words)

	Definition of J and K class destroyer
		The J and K class was a class of sixteen destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy launched in 1938–1938.
		They were heavy torpedo destroyers, designed to be cheaper than the destroyers of the Tribal class.
		Eleven of the sixteen ships of the class were sunk in action, by dive bombers, torpedo planes, U-boats and mines.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/J_and_K_class_destroyer (167 words)

	USN Ships--USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5)
		USS Decatur, a 420-ton Bainbridge class destroyer, was built at Richmond, Virginia.
		Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in June 1919, the old destroyer was sold for scrapping in January 1920.
		USS Decatur was named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), one of the United States Navy's greatest heros and leaders of the first two decades of the 19th Century.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-d/dd5.htm (638 words)

	Destroyers OnLine - The Gearing ( DD ) Class
		The pre-eminent destroyer to emerge from World War II - the Gearing class - with the help of the Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization program (FRAM I) - survived for over three decades as a useful arm of the fleet.
		One Gearing class destroyer, the USS Gurke was still serving as an active ship fifty years after commissioning - as the Greek destroyer Tombazis.
		The Gearing class was essentially the same in design as the Sumner but with an extra 14 feet of length to accomodate additional fuel and AA armament.
	www.destroyersonline.com /usndd/classgear.html (131 words)

	Navy funds contract option for construction of destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the 34th DDG 51-class destroyer built by Bath Iron Works, DDG 112 represents the culmination of new construction for the U.S. Navy's AEGIS shipbuilding program and marks the beginning of a major transition for the Navy as it moves from the DDG 51 to the next generation of destroyer, the DD(X).
		The Honorable John J. Young Jr., assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, described the action as another "landmark on the highway" of AEGIS shipbuilding.
		Like its other Arleigh-Burke class ships, DDG 112 will be a 9,200-ton multimission guided-missile destroyer capable of conducting a variety of operations, from peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection, in support of the National Military Strategy.
	www.dcmilitary.com /navy/seaservices/10_04/national_news/33069-1.html (500 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - March und British Destroyer
		In this the most detailed history of British destroyers ever written, the author examines in great depth their development from 1892 to 1953 and provides the reader with a vast amount of hitherto undisclosed official information.
		A chapter is devoted to each class of destroyer beginning with the Victorian 27-knot vessels of 1892, going right through the history of the Royal Naval destroyer development in and around the two World Wars up to the early 1950's and the introduction of the handsome Daring class.
		A chapter is devoted to each class of destroyer, starting with the early 27-knotters of 1892 and tracing destroyer history through the course of two world wars and up to the date of publications.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/March+/tn/+British+Destroyer (825 words)

	frigate - Encyclopedia.com
		In the United States before the War of 1812, Joshua Humphreys designed a number of frigates superior to any other vessels of their class in speed and armament.
		With the introduction of steam and steel warships in the middle of the 19th cent., frigates as a class of warship passed out of use.
		However, during World War II frigates were reintroduced by the British as a form of antisubmarine escort larger than a corvette and smaller than a destroyer.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-frigate.html (613 words)

	Fletcher-class destroyers in World War II
		Fletcher-class destroyers in World War II “I always felt it was the Fletcher class that won the war...
		Introduced in 1942, the 2100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers were the core of the destroyer force from 1943.
		These 175 flush-deck “2100-tonners” became, “in retrospect … the most successful of all American destroyers: fast, roomy, capable of absorbing enormous punishment, and yet fighting on.” Thanks to postwar service in the US plus fourteen foreign navies, they remained a familiar sight around the world into the 1990s.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/index.html (927 words)

	Hunt class destroyer - Definition, explanation
		The Hunt class was a class of destroyer escorts of the Royal Navy.
		The Hunt class were supposed to be quickly and cheaply built escort destroyers.
		Except for the Type 1s, Hunt class destroyers served with the Royal Navy, Polish Navy, Royal Hellenic Navy (Greece) and Royal Norwegian Navy.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hu/hunt_class_destroyer.php (292 words)

	Naval Actions and losses
		USS Mayo was mined and Torpedo planes sunk J class destroyer HMS Janus.
		HMS Hardy a V class destroyer leader of a JW convoy, torpedoed by a U-boat off Bear Island, sunk by RN.
		Hunt class destroyer HMS Quorn sunk by a torpedo warhead.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW244Res.html (1997 words)

	Royal Navy
		The second Quorn was a Hunt class destroyer built by J.P.White and Co.Ltd. at Cowes.
		HMS Quorn then joined the 21 Destroyer Flotilla at Harwich during the latter stages of 1940.
		She was to spend the whole of her commission with this Flotilla on convoy protection, anti-shipping and patrol duties, being damaged three times before her loss.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/print.php?page=5099 (330 words)

	Naval Technology - DD(X) Class - Multimission Destroyer
		DD(X) replaces the DD 21 Zumwalt program which was for a class of 32 multimission destroyers to replace Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates (FFG 7) and Spruance class destroyers (DD 963) from 2012.
		Unlike previous classes of destroyer, which were primarily to counter deep water threats, the DD 21's primary mission would be to provide land attack support for ground forces and also to carry out traditional destroyer missions of anti-air, anti-surface and undersea warfare.
		The DD 21 Zumwalt class program was halted in November 2001 and has been replaced by the DD(X) next-generation multi-mission destroyer.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/dd21 (1498 words)

	Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Fletcher DD 445
		She is but one example of the 175 ships built to be the largest number of destroyers in the US Navy inventory during that incredible era.
		She was converted into a destroyer escort in 1948 and served proudly until she retired in 1969.
		All 175 Fletcher Class Destroyers from the USS Fletcher DD 445 to the USS Rooks DD 804 are available in a multitude of configurations, sizes and levels of detail.
	thatravenmagic.com /fletcher.html (728 words)

	Regional North America United States Government Military Navy Ships Surface Combatant Destroyer Decommissioned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Benson-Livermore Class Destroyers - Backbone of the Destroyer Navy from 1940-1942.
		USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764) - Gearing class destroyer named for LTjg Lloyd Thomas, a naval aviator who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
		USS Robert A Owens (DD827) - Carpenter Class Destroyer, history of the Robert A Owens DD827.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Regional/North_America/United_States/Government/Military/Navy/Ships/Surface_Combatant/Destroyer/Decommissioned (2273 words)

	Fletcher Destroyer Bluejacket : Voyages of the USS McGowan DD 678 1951-54
		Fletcher Destroyer Bluejacket : Voyages of the USS McGowan DD 678 1951-54
		After serving in Korean waters, on Destroyer Squadron 20’s Around the World Cruise, and NATO maneuvers in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, he was discharged and returned home to Carbondale.
		Fletcher Class destroyers were named after the original Fletcher DD 445, which was designed in 1939 and commissioned on June 30, 1942.
	www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?q3=EpYw3rw0O1Q= (1070 words)

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