An unrecorded signals story has fuel-short Tribal destroyers resisting Admiral Tovey's order to leave because they would not allow another loss like Hood. The attitude fits their habitual work with battlecruisers and recalls an occasion when a tired flotilla refuelled and rearmed within two hours to accompany Renown. The Tribals saw themselves as an aggressive protective screen for capital ships. The opening quotation remains an anecdote, without a recording or written note to support it.
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Why Tribal crews linked destroyers to Hood's survival
A destroyer officer's story frames how Tribal crews understood their duty to protect capital ships after Hood was lost without her usual screen.