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Destroyer
1982
U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1969
Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1964
North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964
Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
1964
Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1962
Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
1958
1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1945
U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1945
U.S. destroyer William D. Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
1943
Destroyer Itchen torpedoed and sinks
1943
Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229
1943
U.S. destroyer William D. Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1942
Douglas H Fox, U.S. captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle
1942
Assinibaine destroyer sinks U-210
1942
Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of U.S. east coast
1942
British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1941
Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James
1941
1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland
1941
German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney
1941
U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1930
Frank Tyson, cricketer, "Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's
1917
Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
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