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Originally Posted by Oneshot/Onekill
...i do appreciate your comment about destroyers not having an armoured belt of anykind, other than their main guns. Learned something new there. I was under the mistaken ignorance that all warships had some armor to different varying thicknesses depending on class of warship.  |
I served on a WW2-era destroyer for the better part of a year, and I
still didn't know that either!
It wasn't until I read Whitley's
German Destroyers of World War Two and a couple of book on the Sumner/Gearing classes (mine was a Gearing) that I found that out! I always assumed the magazines at least would be armored; but no, they just didn't think it was that important. Or maybe they didn't think they could carry enough armor to make it worthwhile.
