- USS Wampanoag, was the world's
fastest steamship.
Initially described as "
commerce destroyers" and cruisers, the
ships featured novel steam engines developed by...
-
doing the same
thing to a B-25
medium bomber to
convert it to a "
commerce destroyer", but this
proved to be
somewhat more difficult. The
resulting aircraft...
- of the
armored cruiser as a fast,
heavily armed scout,
commerce protector and cruiser-
destroyer,
reflected in the term
originally ascribed to them, "large...
-
largely of
destroyers,
designed to
deter and
destroy small torpedo units (in French, "
destroyer" is contre-torpilleur, and in English, "
destroyer" is a contraction...
-
officers on both
sides regarded surface warships as the
ultimate commerce destroyers. For the
first half of 1940,
there were no
German surface raiders...
- new
political climate must have
ended hope of
using Alexandra as a
commerce destroyer. In the meantime, she had
become Mary of Liverpool,
ostensibly a peaceful...
- For the new role, the Navy
developed a
breed of
warship known as "
commerce destroyers" that had the
range and
speed to
intercept enemy ships at sea. Twenty-seven...
-
composed of
coastal ironclads and
oceangoing “
commerce destroyers”
inspired by the
Confederate commerce raiders.
Under this doctrine, the
ironclads would...
- ****igned to the
command of USS San
Jacinto to
search for the
Confederate commerce destroyer CSS Sumter. As part of
these duties, he
visited the
British colony...
- Gunn and
North American technical representative Jack Fox.
These "
commerce destroyers" were also used on
strafing and skip
bombing missions against ****anese...
