The early Tribal class used oil-fired boilers and carried about 200 tons of oil. That experience preceded the Royal Navy's better-known move to oil-fired capital ships. The argument treats celebrated designs such as Dreadnought and Queen Elizabeth as combinations of ideas already tried in earlier vessels. Their novelty can therefore coexist with a conservative approach to testing individual technologies.
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Oil-fired destroyers test technology before capital ships adopt it
Early Tribal-class machinery supports the argument that major warship innovations often combine systems tested beforehand.