The Tribal class, also called the Afridi class, was a group of fast and heavily gunned destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy that served throughout the Second World War. They put more emphasis on guns than on torpedoes compared with earlier destroyers, and the ships were widely admired by their crews and the public. The Royal Navy ships were spread across several British yards, and the Fairfield yard at Govan built two of them, Gurkha and Maori. Only one Tribal survives, HMCS Haida, as a museum ship at Hamilton in Ontario.
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Gurkha (F20) was laid down at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Govan on 6 July 1936
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Gurkha (F20) was laid down at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Govan on 6 July 1936
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