Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Why Canadian and Australian destroyer research needed archive visits

Canadian and Australian archive visits would have changed the destroyer book's coverage and remained necessary for the proposed national studies.

ArchivesNaval BooksNaval ResearchRoyal Australian NavyRoyal Canadian NavyTribal Class Destroyers (1936)
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Question

Would there be an in-depth study of the Canadian Tribal-class destroyers?

Short answer

A Canadian study was intended once archive visits became possible, with Australian archival research also planned for the Australian ships.

Notes

An in-depth account of Canadian Tribal-class destroyers was intended to draw on visits to Canadian archives. Australian archive visits were also planned for the Australian ships. That wider research had originally been part of the destroyer book under discussion and would have produced different concluding chapters. When those visits could not go ahead, the book had to be rewritten and reorganized. The proposed studies remained dependent on obtaining the relevant archival evidence.