Alex dates Type 79's manufacture to 1937 and formal introduction to 1938, then names Sheffield as an early installation. He recalls trials aboard Saltburn in October 1936 and makes a broader claim that Saltburn was the first ship fitted with radar. The small Hunt-class minesweeper is the unexpected test platform in his account. The precise priority claim remains his recollection here, without a comparison of other countries' experiments.
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Type 79 radar and the Saltburn trials recollection
The early-radar chronology distinguishes manufacture, trials and formal introduction.