HMS Nubian's place in Force X leads into a short survey of an unusually active Tribal-class destroyer. She became one of the most decorated British ships of the Second World War. Counting destroyer and battleship honours on the same basis could place her close to HMS Warspite, although this is an interpretive comparison. Unlike Warspite, Nubian accumulated that record within a single war. Her later service with the Eastern Fleet and the Royal Navy's 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron shows how far her operational career extended beyond the Mediterranean.
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Nubian's battle honours reached far beyond Otranto
Force X's HMS Nubian became one of the Royal Navy's most decorated wartime destroyers and later served with the Eastern Fleet's carrier forces.