Imperial Battleships

[rinku]

The type of ship called "Destroyer" derived its name from "torpedo boat destroyer" anyway.

Make a specialist space station killing ship (they don't move so fast), call it a Base Destroyer. Within a generation they'll just be known as Destroyers.

And mostly this has been a rambling discussion, not really any argument.

 

[Condottiere]

The antitorpedo boat origin of this type of ship is retained in its name in other languages, including French (contre-torpilleur), Italian (cacciatorpediniere), Portuguese (contratorpedeiro), Czech (torpédoborec), Greek (antitorpiliko, αντιτορπιλικό), Dutch (torpedobootjager) and, up until the Second World War, Polish (kontrtorpedowiec, now obsolete).[6]

Son nom est la reprise de son équivalent anglais destroyer (« destructeur »), abréviation de torpedo boat destroyer (« destructeur de torpilleurs »).


Also counter, anti, and hunter.

 

[CordwainerFish]

And mostly this has been a rambling discussion

As Dr. Walter Gibbs so wisely said, user requests and rambling discussions are what computers are for.