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