A general-purpose destroyer equipped with ASDIC, throwers, a stern rack, and depth charges still differed from a ship designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare. The official allowance of thirty depth charges does not fit neatly with the number and size of attack patterns described in some service accounts. The arithmetic suggests that some ships may have carried or expended more, though no direct source supports a replacement figure. Operational narratives can expose tension in an official specification while the surviving evidence still requires the published number to stand.
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Tribal ASW loadouts and the limits of official figures
The class's depth-charge outfit illustrates both its genuine anti-submarine capability and the historian's difficulty reconciling official loadouts with operational accounts.