Ebook: Tribal Class Destroyers

IN the successive decades of destroyer construction dating from 1930, three peaks were reached. Standing upon the highest—the Darings—and looking through time over the terrain of classes, the Battles lie close: and perhaps it is perspective alone that makes them seem slightly lower.Beyond them, and fading as memory fades, is the valley of the Emergency Classes, whose deepest point marks the 0 class. Here, there starts a sharp incline, rising to a great peak that to some is still sharp and clear.