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Britain.tv Wikipedia - Destroyer (4143 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. |
| Tribal class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (135 words) |
| The Royal Navy developed two Tribal classes of destroyers: |
| Tribal class destroyer (1936) actually the Afridi-class but always known as Tribals |
| The Canadian Navy developed a class of destroyers in the 1970s which was to be called the Tribal class but under the current lead-ship designation convention is known as the Iroquois class. |
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