Destroyers in Pacific

Although it was first published in 1931, Endless Story remains the only comprehensive account of the services of the Navy s small craft destroyers, torpedo boats and patrol vessels during the First World War, and moreover the only one written by an officer personally involved.

Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually intact large WWII wrecks filled with cargoes of tanks, trucks, artillery, beach mines, shells and aircraft rest in the crystal clear waters of the Lagoon – each a man-made reef teeming with life.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and small — from delivering the mail at sea to screening other vessels and, where larger ships were not present, forming the front line in battle. This title details the 169 ships of ten classes introduced in the 1930s: early 1,500-tonners and 1,850-ton destroyer leaders designed to conform to the 1930 London Naval Treaty, plus the successor 1,570-ton Sims class and 1,620- and 1,630-ton Benson and Gleaves classes.