destroyer

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Under the plan, HMS Dragon - the air defence destroyer that is already on its way to the Middle East - will also "be ready for any mission" to secure the strait, the MoD said.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Or a destroyer of the music those gatekeepers want to protect?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Friday’s missiles missed their target—one failed in flight and the other disappeared after a Navy destroyer launched SM-3 interceptors at them, U.S. officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Together they saw the tragedy and humiliation of their Table, from which no man was willing to save them— knew that the Queen of it was called, by common breath, a destroyer of good knights.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White