Subchasers, have fun, http://www.splinterfleet.org/
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Adam Maas wrote: > graywolf wrote: >> You can tell the old destroyer guys, because they never set their coffee >> mug down for fear it will go flying across the room. BTW, I did not know >> the RN had destroyers, I thought the RN called that class of ship a >> corvette?* >> >> *Ah, looked it up a corvette seems to be what we would call a sub-chaser >> over here (US), quite a bit smaller than a destroyer. See, I can still >> learn something new, so much for that old dogs stuff. >> > > Actually, the US used Destroyer Escorts. These were equivalent to RN > Frigates of the WW2 era, larger than the Corvette (Corvette's were > really too small for their job) but smaller than a full-on Destroyer. > Sub-Chaser is what they did, not what they were designated as. > > Destroyers were actually invented by the Royal Navy, as their answer to > German Torpedo Boats (Originally they were Torpedo Boat Destroyers). The > RM currently operates the Type 42 Destroyers, with the Type 45's coming > into service in 2009 (the first was launched earlier this year and is > fitting out for sea trials). No Blue Water Navy uses Corvette's > (Although the current Canadian Kingston-class Patrol Boats are > Corvette's in all but name). Several European powers do operate > Corvette's, most notably the Swedes, who's Visby class were the first > stealth ships to enter active service. > > Modern Destroyers range in size from the Canadian Tribal/Iroquois class > (the first really modern DD design, around 4800 tons) through the Flight > IIA Arleigh Burke class of the US, Japan and (soon) Australia, which are > around 9200 tons. The US is currently working on the Zumwalt class, > which is around 13,000 tons, the same size as a New Orleans class heavy > Cruiser of WW2 and is 3000 tons heavier than the Ticonderoga-class Cruisers. > > -Adam > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
