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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Destroyer (4159 words) |
 | Modern destroyers are equivalent in tonnage but drastically superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles able to destroy cities in a very small volley. |
| Destroyers were involved in the skirmishes that prompted the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and filled a range of roles in the Battle of Gallipoli, acting as troops transports and fire support vessels, as well as their fleet-screening role. |
| The destroyers (as well as frigates) are, as always, the workhorses of the fleet, the former optimised for air defence and the latter for surface and subsurface warfare. |
| Beagle class destroyer at AllExperts (158 words) |
| The Beagle class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1909 or 1910. |
| The class was also known as the Basilisk-class and officially the G-class but as another G-class of destroyers was created in the 1930s, Beagle-class is the name now commonly used. |
| The destroyers were coal-fired and were obsolete by the end of the First World War so that the surviving ships were all scrapped by 1921. |
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