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The navigation effort has largely happened at night, with ships turning off their automatic identification systems while a U.S. destroyer stays in radio contact with the bridge and the shipowner’s operations center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The group consists of HMS Prince of Wales, Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan, F-35 jets, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, and is supported by RFA Tidespring, a replenishment tanker.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

This motley pile, big enough to man a destroyer, is working together to literally support their sister’s audacious rise.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Britain said in May it was sending a destroyer to the region, and Italy has made two minehunters available.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Japanese surveillance has recorded Chinese destroyers passing through the strait near Amami-Oshima at least 10 times this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Zumwalt class of naval destroyers was lauded for its “affordable and flexible design.”

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, the U.K. recently said it would build vessels designed to act as mother ships to drones instead of replacing its fleet of destroyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

It is certainly a dramatic transformation away from expensive big-ticket items like destroyers, towards large numbers of much cheaper and more expendable weapons.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

“There are much worse things, you know. The destroyers: they work to see how much can be lost, how much can be forgotten. They destroy the feeling people have for each other. ”

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko