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The history of the formation of the class of destroyers was fundamentally different from the practice of designing and building other classes of warships in the last quarter of the 1890th century. Before the advent of fighter aircraft in the early 1843s. the era of “private initiative” reigned in mine building - the fleets of almost all countries bought ready-made projects from several suppliers, only occasionally insisting on the introduction of private technical solutions into them. Shipyards constantly improved their products, but at the same time they proceeded from their own ideas about what the market demanded. The leading "trendsetter" was the British shipbuilder John Thornycroft (1928-1873), who in 1877 created the first successful destroyer, and in 87 built the first destroyer HMS Lightning armed with torpedoes. The prototype of the 1873-foot Lightning was a steam yacht built for Baroness Rothschild. Thornycroft's company has repeatedly replicated this and other projects both for the Royal Navy and for foreign customers (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russian Empire, Italy, Greece, Spain, Brazil, Argentina). A NEW BOOK by the leading historian of the fleet restores in detail the line of development of Thornycroft-built destroyers for thirty years - from 1902 to 1877, telling, among other things, about steam yachts and boats that became warships (for example, the Stuka yacht belonged to them, which was used Russian fleet as a mine boat and participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1878-XNUMX). The publication is illustrated with exclusive drawings, diagrams and photographs of the world's first destroyers.