![]() These ships became known as the "original 33 knotters." They saw action in WWI in the Channel and the North Sea. Armament was in two variants the first five had a main armament of five 12 pounders, the remaining seven carried two 4 inch guns. The original Tribals were a batch of twelve ships built for the Royal Navy in 1905 - 1908 and were the forerunners of the Modern Class of Royal Navy destroyers. The Canadian and Australian ships carried this arrangement upon completion. The Tribals were not really U-boat hunters but rather fleet destroyers.ĭuring the second half of 1940 the Royal Navy ships (except the war losses HMS Gurkha and HMS Afridi) had one twin 4.7" gun turret replaced by a twin 4" AA gun turret. ![]() Australia built 3 Tribal class destroyers, which were commissioned into the RAN. (4 more Tribals were being built for the RCN but they would not see service until after the war). Thus the flotillas were renamed 4th and 6th destroyer flotillas.Ĩ ships were built for the Canadian Navy and the first of those came into service in 1943. By 1939 the Royal Navy had learned that while the Tribals were larger they were just normal destroyers. The ships were formed into the 1st and 2nd Tribal destroyer flotillas. The first 7 Tribals were ordered on 10 March, 1936 with the latter group of 9 Tribals being ordered on 9 June. The design chosen was a powerful yet beautiful looking ship. The Tribal was finally accepted after no less than 8 design proposals. These ships were all around 2000 tons while the British destroyers were closer to 1300 tons.Įstimated cost per ship was 340,000 pounds excluding Admiralty supplied armaments putting the average cost around 520,000. The Tribal class destroyers trace their roots to 1934 when the British Admiralty evaluated the threat posed by much larger destroyers being built in Japan, Italy and even Germany than the Royal Navy had. 190 (Cossack, Afridi, Somali and Tartar 219) men
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