Tribal Group

Tribal Group (52˚03'00" 128˚19'00" S of Horsfall I, N side of Queens Sd, SW of Bella Bella). Named by the hydrographic service in 1944 after the Tribal class of destroyers that served in the RCN during WWII. Twenty-seven of these vessels were constructed, beginning in 1936, for the RN, RCN and Royal Australian Navy. They were designed as a response to new, heavily armed destroyers built by Japan, Italy and Germany, and had more guns than their predecessors but fewer torpedo launchers. For...

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