In World War II (1939-1945), naval ships often rammed other vessels, though this was often due to circumstances, as considerable damage could be caused to the attacking ship. The damage that lightly-constructed destroyers took from using the tactic led the Royal Navy to officially discouraged the practice from early 1943, after spent three months in dry dock following her sinking of in December 1942, and after was torpedoed and sunk after damaging her propellers during the ramming of in March 1943. rammed and was rammed by in May 1944; and rammed in 1943.