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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 .
Transferred to Taiwan, 6 October 1971 : 8 March 1951 6 October 1971 Bush DD-529 12 February 1942 27 October 1942 10 May 1943 — Sunk, 6 April 1945 : Trathen DD-530 17 March 1942 : 22 October 1942 28 May 1943 18 January 1946 Used as target hulk November 1973, scrapped : 1 August 1951 11 May 1965 Hazelwood DD-531 11 April 1942 20 November 1942
Tribal class can refer to several classes of warship: Tribal-class destroyer (1905) or F class, 12 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the early 1900s and operating during World War I Tribal-class destroyer (1936) or Afridi class, 27 destroyers built for the navies of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia that served during World War II
4 destroyers 3 Fletcher-class (5 × 5-in. main battery): Fletcher, Jenkins, La Vallette 1 Sims-class (4 × 5-in. main battery): Anderson 1 fleet tug: Sonoma 8 landing craft infantry: 6 rocket, 2 gunboat 14 landing ships tank Battleship Mississippi Minelayer HMS Ariadne Destroyer Stack Fletcher-class destroyer
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.
HMS Cossack was one of five Tribal-class destroyers ordered as part of the 1905–06 shipbuilding programme. [2] While the Admiralty laid down the basic requirements of an oil-fuelled, steam turbine-powered ship with a speed of 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph), a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at cruising speed and an endurance of eight hours at full speed, the details of the ...