In this assessment, Royal Navy criticism of its destroyers concentrated on equipment while the hulls continued to suit the Navy's doctrine and assigned missions. Their design compromises reflected British needs, even when other navies would have chosen differently. Continued experimentation produced better ships as the wartime programme advanced. Repeating a satisfactory design more often was an alternative way to put useful destroyers into service sooner, and the preference here is to give that approach more weight.
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The case for repeating a wartime destroyer design
Repeated changes produced better destroyers over time. More straight repeats might have put useful ships in service sooner.