A destroyer escort is a type of powerful and well armed escort used by the Cardassians and Klingons. (Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 2: Starships of the Cardassian Union; Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 3: Ships of the Klingon Empire)
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| - A destroyer escort is a type of powerful and well armed escort used by the Cardassians and Klingons. (Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 2: Starships of the Cardassian Union; Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 3: Ships of the Klingon Empire)
- A destroyer escort (DE) is the classification for a smaller, lightly armed warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. Slower and less expensive than a fleet destroyer, destroy escorts were employed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, but also provided some protection against aircraft and smaller attack vessels. The US built roughly 457 destroyer escorts spread out over 8 classes. The Royal Navy deployed destroyer escorts of the Evarts subclass and of the Buckley subclass (with the torpedo tubes removed) and designating them as Captain-class frigates. The Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces' frigates had a similar role to American destroyer escorts.
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| - , USS Evarts an example of the Evarts subclass.
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| - A destroyer escort (DE) is the classification for a smaller, lightly armed warship designed to be used to escort convoys of merchant marine ships, primarily of the United States Merchant Marine in World War II. Slower and less expensive than a fleet destroyer, destroy escorts were employed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, but also provided some protection against aircraft and smaller attack vessels. The US built roughly 457 destroyer escorts spread out over 8 classes. The Royal Navy deployed destroyer escorts of the Evarts subclass and of the Buckley subclass (with the torpedo tubes removed) and designating them as Captain-class frigates. The Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces' frigates had a similar role to American destroyer escorts. Although destroyer escorts lacked the arms, armor and speed to attack fast armored cruisers and battleships, at the Battle off Samar, the task group Taffy 3 of escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts were attacked by a superior Japanese fleet led by the giant battleship Yamato. The Butler-class destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts became known as "the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship"[citation needed] as it inflicted damage from torpedoes and gunfire on much larger cruisers, and was an instrumental part of a small task force of light ships forcing a far superior enemy fleet to turn back.
- A destroyer escort is a type of powerful and well armed escort used by the Cardassians and Klingons. (Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 2: Starships of the Cardassian Union; Ship Recognition Manual, Volume 3: Ships of the Klingon Empire)
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