In World War II, destroyers were truly all-purpose ships, ready to fight off attacks from the air, the surface and under the surface. As the new destroyers grew in size and carried more torpedoes, they replaced torpedo boats and assumed the role of torpedo attack ships. She displaced 400 tons, was 250 feet in length, mounted two three-inch guns and two torpedoes. Bainbridge, the first American destroyer, was commissioned in 1902.
The destroyer, which also carried the newly invented torpedo, was developed to protect capital ships from torpedo boat attacks.
The first destroyers were designed at the beginning of the twentieth century to counter a small, but feared, ship - the torpedo boat. USS Cassin Young at Pier 1 Greyhound of the Seas
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