Destroyers, Frigates and Corvettes

Smaller, faster warships built to screen larger ships and to hunt submarines, aircraft and surface raiders, from the cheap wartime corvettes that escorted merchant convoys to the guided missile destroyers that carry radar based air defence for a modern fleet. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship, or its class, a destroyer, frigate, corvette, destroyer escort or guided missile destroyer. It excludes cruisers and larger ships, minesweepers and patrol craft, and the supply ships that follow the fleet. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.