The Royal Navy had already prepared names for additional Tribal-class destroyers. Some came from the earlier Tribal class, while others were new names added to the list. The service at one point considered ordering more Tribals instead of L- and M-class destroyers, so a hypothetical expansion to 32 ships had both a procurement precedent and names ready. This moment links ship naming to an unrealised extension of the class rather than treating the names as an afterthought.
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Names were ready for more Tribal destroyers
The Royal Navy had enough prepared names for an expanded Tribal-class programme and had considered ordering more of the class.