Warship type designed for escort duties against smaller vessels.
1A torpedo boat destroyer came lumbering across the sky line.
2Inside were the French torpedo boats Fronde and Pistolet and the torpedo boat destroyer D'Iberville.
3Then they invented a craft as an antidote for the torpedo boat -thetorpedo boat destroyer.
4Nobody wants to waste a whole mine on a poor little torpedo boat destroyer-andtwenty to forty men.
5April 13-Britishtorpedo boat destroyer Renard dashes up the Dardanelles over ten miles at high speed on a scouting expedition.
6A seaplane can go so fast that it makes the fastest torpedo boat destroyer look as if it were standing still.
7A Lieutenant to man a ship of the fourth rating; a torpedo boat destroyer, torpedo boat, tug, tender or a ship not rated.
8Some ships of this description can spurt up to 25 knots-notso long ago considered a high speed even for a torpedo boat destroyer.
9On its official trial trip the British torpedo boat destroyer "Mohawk" attained the record speed of a little over 39 miles an hour.
10On March 22, 1902, the torpedo boat destroyer the "Barry" was launched at the Neafie & Levy's shipyard.
11Alongside floating stages in the basins lay submarines and torpedo boat destroyers.
12Three cruisers and a pair of torpedo boat destroyers showed the way.
13The torpedo boat destroyers, of which there were 18, must not be forgotten.
14From their silhouettes, I knew them to be dreadnaughts, cruisers, and torpedo boat destroyers.
15In one respect Spain is stronger, that is in her six speedy torpedo boat destroyers.
16Torpedo Boat Destroyers: Torpedo boats, tugs, sailing ships and receiving ships shall not be rated.
Translations for torpedo boat destroyer