After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Such ships will typically travel in a fleet ... in the above vintage postcard), and they were thus called torpedo boat destroyers. Both before and during World War I, destroyers were developed ...

(National Archives) To close with them as quickly as possible, Kurita ordered a “general attack,” which committed his ships ... of his destroyers to slow down enemy forces with torpedoes ...

Modern destroyers continue to serve ... weapons that include air-defense missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine rockets, and even torpedoes. Yet the guns hadn’t totally disappeared from ...