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  2. List of destroyers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...

  3. List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    USS Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The first automotive torpedo was developed in 1866, and the torpedo boat was developed soon after. In 1898, while the Spanish–American War was being fought in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were the only threat to the American navy, and pushed for ...

  4. USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) - Wikipedia

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    USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer No. 61/DD-61) [Note 1] was a Tucker-class destroyer built for the United States Navy prior to the American entry into World War I. The ship was the first U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of Jacob Jones .

  5. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer - Wikipedia

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    The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar. The class is named after Admiral Arleigh Burke, an American destroyer officer in World War II and later Chief of Naval Operations.

  6. USS Edson - Wikipedia

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    USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, formerly of the United States Navy, built by Bath Iron Works in Maine in 1958. Her home port was Long Beach, California and she initially served in the Western Pacific/Far East, operating particularly in the Taiwan Strait and off the coast of Vietnam.

  7. USS Stockdale (DDG-106) - Wikipedia

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    USS Stockdale (DDG-106) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy.The third U.S. Navy ship of that name, Stockdale is named after Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale (1923–2005) and is the 56th destroyer in her class.