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The Tribal class, or Afridi class, was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy that saw service in World War II. Originally conceived during design studies for a light fleet cruiser, [ 1 ] the Tribals evolved into fast, powerful destroyers, with greater emphasis on guns over torpedoes than ...
The United States Navy commissioned 175 Fletcher-class destroyers between 1942 and 1944, more than any other destroyer class, and the design was generally regarded as highly successful. The Fletcher s had a design speed of 38 knots (70 km/h; 44 mph) and a principal armament of five 5-inch (127 mm) guns in single mounts with ten 21-inch (530 mm ...
The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I , where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols .
4 Fletcher-class destroyers: Laws, Longshaw, Morrison, Prichett Unit Two (Rear Admiral C. Turner Joy) 2 battleships: Arkansas, Colorado 2 heavy cruisers: San Francisco, Minneapolis 3 Fletcher-class destroyers: Halligan (struck mine 26 Mar), Paul Hamilton, Twiggs (sunk by kamikaze 16 Jun) 1 Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer: Laffey
Authorized as one of seven Tribal-class destroyers under the 1935 Naval Estimates, [13] Nubian was the third ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. [14] The ship was ordered on 10 March 1936 from John I. Thornycroft & Company and was laid down on 10 August at the company's Woolston, Southampton , shipyard .
USS Fletcher (DD/DDE-445), named for Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher, was the lead Fletcher-class destroyer, and served in the Pacific during World War II. She received fifteen battle stars for World War II service, and five for Korean War service. Fletcher was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, on 2 ...
Authorized as one of seven Tribal-class destroyers under the 1935 Naval Estimates, [11] Gurkha (originally Ghurka) was the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. [12] The ship was ordered on 10 March 1936 from Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering and was laid down on 6 July at the company's Govan shipyard .
Six Tribal-class destroyers (Tartar, Mohawk, Viking, Nubian, Amazon and Cossack) were being held at readiness at Dover as a fast response force, at readiness in Dover harbour, and when the German 5th Half Flotilla attacked the drifters and sank the old supporting destroyer HMS Flirt, they were ordered to intervene.