The destroyer got its name as the initial craft ... in the above vintage postcard), and they were thus called torpedo boat destroyers. Both before and during World War I, destroyers were developed ...

Once upon a time, ‘destroyer’ was short for ‘torpedo boat destroyer’: then destroyers took on the work of torpedo boats themselves. During that period the ‘frigates’ of the days of ...

In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...

The following images, provided by Tyne & Wear Archives, show the heart of a World War I German submarine that sank in 1918 after it was rammed by a torpedo boat destroyer. During WWII, Germany ...