The Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes form a developing family of large Fleet destroyers. Unlike a destroyer concept organized primarily around torpedo attack, these ships placed increasing emphasis on gun armament. They combined scouting, cruising presence, combat against enemy destroyers, and torpedo attack in one design. That broad mission logic made them important predecessors of the modern general-purpose destroyer. The digression shows how changing the mission set can reshape a warship even before a new type name becomes standard.
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Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes foreshadowed the general-purpose destroyer
A brief design digression links the Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes to destroyers built around guns and a broad mission set rather than torpedo attack alone.