Show The Destroyer Is Defenseless Against Guns ONE Is familiar of ot course EVERY I x with the ordinary torpedo boat a swift vessel of at from four to six bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred tons in displacement carrying no no defensive armor but armed with tubes for discharging the deadly tor tor- br- br To counteract these wasps of the sea a type of ot vessel was designed of at about double the size of at torpedo boats a little greater speed and in addition to torpedo tubes armed with rapid- rapid fir firs fire six to twelve guns for forthe forthe the tho avowed purpose of at destroying torpedo torpedo tor tor- boats Lately all the great na na- na- na have stopped building torpedo I boats as originally designated and andare andare andare are building torpedo boat destroyers Recent engagements have developed the tho fact act that torpedo boat destroyers are used almost Wholly holly as torpedo I boats So they are really reany battleship destroyers s. s To defend the capital ships front from to torpedo attack tho the dreadnoughts dreadnoughts dreadnoughts dread dread- noughts and battle cruisers are armed with secondary batteries of rapid-fire rapid guns from four to six inches In eter One well placed shell from a 3 agun agun gun of that tha-t size will wUl ordinarily put a destroyer out of at business as the destroyers have no defensive armor whatever |