The music Anchors Aweigh is downloading. For subsequent pages click on the media control player if you wish to listen. A destroyer is a lovely ship, probably the nicest fighting ship of all.
Battleships are a little like steel cities or great factories of destruction.
Aircraft carriers are floating flying fields. Even cruisers are big pieces of machinery, but a destroyer is all boat. In the beautiful lines of her, in her speed and roughness, in curious gallantry, she is completely a ship, in the old sense.