Blinded after an accident at age 5, Ralph Teetor was determined to pursue engineering. His inventions have filtered into ...

Capt. John Ericsson's torpedo boat Destroyer lay in the Horseshoe at Sandy Hook yesterday afternoon. All that could be seen of her was a black streak on the water surmounted by the light iron ...

The destroyer got its name as the initial craft were deployed by the British to hunt and neutralize the growing threat of torpedo boats (one example of such is pictured in the above vintage ...

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.—While being docked at the League Island Navy Yard Saturday, the new torpedo boat destroyer Chauncey came in contact with a bulkhead and was damaged to such an extent it ...

The destroyer got its name as the initial craft were deployed by the British to hunt and neutralize the growing threat of torpedo boats (one example of such is pictured in the above vintage ...

Destroyers have become multirole vessels that form the backbone of many modern navies - here are the most powerful examples of this class currently at sea.

The destroyer tender USS Melville at Queenstown, Ireland, 1917. Jacob Jones is the first destroyer on the left. Destroyers were invented in the 1880s, when they were called torpedo boat destroyers.

As he did so, however, the destroyer was spotted by Lt. Kovar and the crew of PT-137. The PT boat loosed a single torpedo, then took evasive action under a barrage of star shell.

A British dive team recovered the bell from the first U.S. destroyer sunk in World War I and will return it to Washington.

Early in the evening of Sept. 18, the destroyers picked up the four skunks, found them to be moving at speeds of around 40 knots—too fast to be anything but torpedo boats.

Under the command of Lt. Isadore Kovar, PT-137 missed a Japanese destroyer — and crippled a cruiser instead.