What do you consider the best warship?

oh, that's easy. The USS William D Porter, or the Willie D.

the Willie D was a Fletcher class destroyer, a all around great and capable warship commissioned in 1943. it's amazing service record makes it one of the most famous Fletchers.

her incredible career began on November 12 1943, where she was assigned to meet with the Iowa and escort it to north Africa. President Roosevelt was on the flagship, and the Willie D was assigned to escort. before she left Norfolk her anchor ripped the railings and life boat mountings from another destroyer, but the Willie D would not let this minor inconvenience stop her, for she was a courageous ship.

the next day the Iowa, Willie D and two others were steaming for north Africa when the Willie D dropped a depth charge into the ocean, to scare off any U-boats. unfortunately this terrified the weak men of the other ships into thinking that there was a u-boat threat, and they preformed evasive maneuvers for the next hour.

Roosevelt was feeling bored after the excitement calmed down, so he ordered the Iowa to preform a AA drill. As the bofors rang out he was very pleased that the Iowa could take out weather balloons with such ease. The Willie D also shot down a hearty score, but it would not be upstaged.

they decided that it would be best to show president Roosevelt what a destroyer could do to a battleship, so they simulated a torpedo launch. Right until they launched a live torpedo at the president of the united states.

they tried warning the Iowa of the incoming torpedo using the signal light, signing that they had shot a torpedo in the opposite direction, then 'back emergency'. finally they radioed the idiots on the iowa who could not decipher the Willie D's code, and told them to zig right. the Iowa did, and the torpedo went off in the backwash.

the Iowa trained their 16 inchers on the Willie D, undoubtedly terrified as men who stare down certain death are. the Willie D could have ended them, easily, but it did not. it returned to port, where the entire crew was arrested under suspicion of assassination attempt and treason.

but the Willie D wasn't done yet. after being sentenced to the Aleutians for a year she came back, now treated with her own honorable greeting

"Don't shoot, we're Republicans!"

the Willie D had now become a adept aircraft hunter, destroying ten planes in its career before the battle of Okinawa. there the Willie D meet its demise.

a val dive bomber came down for the skies and crashed next to the Willie D, too fearful to hit it head on. the plane sunk to under the Willie D, then exploded, breaking its back. the Willie D sunk three hours later, with no casualties.

in conclusion, it is the only warship to have ever nearly killed a US President, and as such, it deserves to be treated as the most dangerous, and therefore best.