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 ...

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 ...