The torpedo-boat destroyer was developed at the same time as the Dreadnoughts.
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I recognize modern destroyers do much more than the original torpedo boat destroyer concept.
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Torpedo-boat-destroyer designs continued to evolve around the turn of the 20th century in several key ways.
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The torpedo boat and destroyer attacks lasted three weeks, during which 80 torpedoes were launched at Sevastopol.
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These ships had the size and displacement of the original torpedo boat destroyers that the contemporary destroyer had evolved from.
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The ship concerned had been classified as a destroyer by the Italian Navy, before being converted down by the Germans into a torpedo boat.
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Bigger, faster and more heavily gunned than the torpedo boat, the destroyer evolved to protect the capital ships from the menace of the torpedo boat.
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On January 19, 1887, the DESTRUCTOR, the first torpedo boat destroyer, was turned over to the Spanish Navy, with great expectations from the European naval community.