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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring in the Persian Gulf, 2012.

Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo-boat destroyer Valkyrjen, 1897.

The United States Navy destroyer 616 anchored near shore, with sailors on deck and an American flag flying at the stern, following a 1945 typhoon near Amami-o-shima, Japan.

USS Cole; destroyer

USS Callaghan, guided missile destroyer of the Kidd class

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