Talk:Samuel B. Roberts/@comment-27362593-20180424004135/@comment-1017333-20180424024854

She's probably useful in Transport Combined fleets, and we know she's good at murdering subs. Alternatively, I've seen mention that she only needs one piece of equipment to become fast.

DE – like APD, AVD, DM, and DMS – are a type of Destroyer but not a type of Fleet Destroyer. In particular, (for our purposes) the big difference between DE and DD is that DE go slower. Representing one as a slow destroyer is thus entirely appropriate, which is why people were saying this would happen months ago. (We also already have APD classified as Destroyers in the game.)

The current frigate in american service is just over 2000 tons, and post war the US will be using 5500 ton Frigates to lead Destroyer packs. (The US only starts conforming to British Definitions in 1970, long after this era.)

The US had a variety of less talked about gunboats (PG), patrol crafts (PCE, PE, etc), and cutters (W*) of Kaiboken size guarding it's coast during WW2.