Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Tribal Class - Guide 025 (Human Voice)" video.

  1. No, none of the Tribals were refitted with flight decks. A new generation of Canadian destroyers was designed and built for that. The earlier ones did not have flight decks but the were retrofitted after the fact. The first one HMCS St. Laurent was also the first one that I served on.
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  2. They were never used as colonial gun boats. It's an urban legend.
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  3.  @richardcooper9417  Perhaps, that's what the Brits had in mind in 1936 but it's a real stretch. The Canadians and probably the Australians had zero/zip/nada interest in scaring the fuzzy-wuzzies with 4.7 inch guns. (Why not send a cruiser or battle ship?)
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  4.  @richardcooper9417  I'm a navy veteran who served in the 1970s. I meet with a group of other Canadian navy vets each week (I'm the "kid"). Three of our members served on Tribals (Iroquois, Haida and Huron). Two of them fought in Korea along with seven other Canadian destroyers (C Class and Tribals). I'm also involved as one of the curators of a little museum devoted to the last one Haida and I will study this further. I expect that if I tell them that Tribals were meant to scare the natives somewhere, they will laugh until the cry but I will ask and get back to you. Likely , they will say that it sounds like a "Kipper" thing (Kipper=Canadian slang for an RN sailor). The Canadians often served with or near the very similar American Fletcher class and I can guarantee 100% that the Fletchers had no design criterion to impress natives. I think that you're re-writing history through the eyes of 2023 wokeness.
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  5. One of the Canadian Tribals, HMCS Huron had it's bow cut off by a French destroyer during exercises in the Med in 1958. She put in to the naval dockyard in Toulon for three months while the crew lived in hotels soaking up the goodies of France. The yard welded a new bow on but the work was very poorly done with sand in the welds and it came apart on the way home to Halifax mid-Atlantic, barely making it home,
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  6. HMS Eskimo. She was British Royal Navy. So was HMS Mohawk. Go figure.
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