Meanings of torpedo-boat destroyer in English

Our modern submarine-chasers are merely a modified form of the torpedo-boat destroyer.

The expedition was convoyed by the cruiser Marblehead, the torpedo-boat destroyer Eagle and other warships.

She picked up the miniature torpedo-boat destroyer and a shower of bonbons fell to the floor.

He has finished the model of that old torpedo-boat destroyer that everybody is making such a fuss about.

She's in a hurry, too, crowding on all steam, and eating up the distance like a torpedo-boat destroyer.

It isn't a bomb, Miss Matilda, it is only a pasteboard model of our friend Lieutenant Jimmy Lawton's torpedo-boat destroyer.

He is a kind of spy-destroyer performing in his sphere the same service that the torpedo-boat destroyer does in its domain.

He had just completed a model of his torpedo-boat destroyer and expected to take it to Washington within a few days.

I think it is something about a torpedo-boat destroyer that will go twice as fast as any other torpedo boat, Phil went on vaguely.

Following the Oquendo at a distance of about 1,200 yards came the torpedo-boat destroyer Pluton, and after her the Furor.

The fleet consisted of seven battleships, two armoured cruisers, and some protected cruisers and torpedo-boat destroyers.

There remained to be surrendered two battleships, which were under repair, and fifty modern torpedo-boat destroyers.

Oct. 17-Britishsquadron, led by the Undaunted, sinks four German torpedo-boatdestroyers off Dutch coast; allied fleets bombard Cattaro.

Of course, from time to time, cruisers, colliers, torpedo-boat destroyers or torpedo boats, Will have to be built also.

We know, however, that she lost twelve cruisers, two torpedo-boat destroyers and twenty-one gunboats from her list of fighting ships.

"She's as fast as a torpedo-boat destroyer, then, sir," hazarded Dan.