DDs do provide some comic relief now and again. Just yesterday I was on a patrol and got harassed by a small TF. Two DDs and a Subchaser. Got cought whilst not paying enough attention whilst racing to intercept a convoy in the East China Sea (early '45).
After crash-diving, I got pounded with DCs. As I was looking in external view, one of the DDs actually slowed to a near stop just after releasing a DC (from a sidemount). And it blew up right under his propellers
Fire ensued, and it startet to take in water astern. Eventually just sitting there with the stern more or less submerged. Shame I couldn't go topside and finish it up.