![]() ![]() ![]() In the words of a requirement restated a century later, "Self-deployability (blue water endurance) is needed to allow the platforms to get to the contested area without the need for valuable and scarce open ocean transport or the support of an ever-present mothership." Such vessels still had to be small, fast, and maneuverable enough to pursue and destroy torpedo boats. Hybrid sail-steam Spanish torpedo boat destroyer AudazĪ new type of vessel, called the torpedo boat destroyer, was developed as an escort to major warships, and possibly merchant vessels threatened by torpedo boats. A partial solution was adding a secondary gun battery of smaller caliber, faster firing rate, and faster aiming than the main guns intended to sink other battleships, but the secondary battery still let the torpedo boats come too close. When battleships and other large ships, possibly escorting unarmed cargo and troop transports, needed to approach a hostile shore, they needed to deal with the torpedo boat threat. Torpedo boats were generally not capable of long-range steaming or being seaworthy in the "blue water" deep ocean they were coastal craft. The battleship of the early 20th century was the largest, most heavily armed, and most heavily protected warship type, but relatively slow and not extremely maneuverable. When the modern self-propelled torpedo was invented, in 1866, by Robert Whitehead, it was initially added to conventional warships, but navies soon realized that a small, fast craft, with a main battery of torpedoes, could threaten much larger warships such as battleships. Another type of vessel, whose nomenclature is the root of "destroyer", has been called "torpedo boat" and exists in new forms generically called fast attack craft. Most common among these roles are cruiser and ocean escort. Several other warship designations have, at different times and in different navies, overlapped the "destroyer" role. USS Winston Churchill (DDG-81), a Flight IIA Burke advanced destroyerĪ destroyer is a type of warship, the nature of which has evolved since it first came into use, roughly at the beginning of the twentieth century. See also: Cruiser See also: Ocean escort See also: Fast attack craft 7.4 Modern corvettes and patrol vessels.3.3.2.6 Royal Navy against IJN Haguro group.3.3.1 Technological and doctrinal evolution.3 Torpedoes, and things that carry them.2 First World War, and a new torpedo threat. ![]()
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