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Ever since I read "The Caine Mutiny" I've been off and on obsessed with the US 1,000 ton/4-piper/flush-deck destroyers.
Those are Caldwell, Clemson and Wickes classes.
I used to watch a lot of World of Warship videos and noticed that destroyers and torpedoes could be devastating.
In the game, the tubes reload and you can try over and over.
In the real world, even if you had spares in the hold, there's no means to reload them.
So a flush-deck gets 12 torpedo shots then it's a gunboat.
Then it needs to get to a dock or a destroyer tender to get reloaded.
This might not be true of every destroyer class, but it's common.
Honestly, it surprised me.
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