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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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