Pl. 63
Plate 63 of 87 · Class VIII, Ships & submarines
Destroyer
A fast, maneuverable warship intended to escort larger vessels and defend them against torpedo attack. Conceived in the late 19th century as a defense against torpedo boats, it grew larger between 1892 and 1914, and in the First World War the submarine became another threat it had to counter.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement §9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §6 Jutland: The Day of the Dreadnoughts
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §1 Germany's Gamble: The U-boats and the Zimmermann Telegram§2 America Enters, and the World Follows
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §1 The Balance of 1914: Dreadnoughts and the Fleet in Being§3 Raiders and Hunters: Spee, Emden and Königsberg§4 The U-Boat War in Four Phases§5 Barrages and Raids: Dover, Otranto and Zeebrugge§10 Carriers, Tondern and the Scuttling at Scapa Flow
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §4 Tsingtao, the Pacific and the Emden