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Two Destroyers (escorting carrier — The State Dinner — S01E07)

Two steel‑hulled destroyers ride alongside a carrier as paired escort warships: compact, seaworthy grey hulks framed only by urgent briefing mentions rather than on‑screen inspection. Characters reference their presence to amplify the formation’s scale—implying bridge crews, radar masts, and layered defenses—while the ships themselves remain offstage, operational but vulnerable within the crisis. Their depiction is functional and terse, invoked to compress the emergency into tangible naval risk.

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S1E7 · The State Dinner

Between Storm and Ceremony — 'What Do I Do Now?'

The two destroyers are enumerated as part of the escort force, widening the implied risk beyond the carrier and reinforcing the scale of personnel and assets at stake in twenty minutes' time.

Before: Operating with the carrier as part of the battle group at sea.

After: Still part of the threatened formation; their fate is subsumed in the broader emergency without immediate operational detail.

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S1E7 · The State Dinner

Demanding a Line to the Fleet

The two destroyers (escort ships) are mentioned as components of the battle group, emphasizing the scale and vulnerability of the formation and increasing the sense of compounded risk beyond the carrier itself.

Before: Deployed as escorts to the carrier, actively at sea within the battle group's disposition.

After: Remain operationally paired with the carrier but similarly threatened by the approaching worst of the hurricane; no tactical change enacted on-screen.

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