How the Tribal hull shaped later British destroyers

What influence did the Tribal class have on later Royal Navy destroyers?

Its hull and superstructure ideas carried into later large destroyers, while an L70 successor could have pushed the fleet much further toward powerful cruiser-like destroyers.

Modified Tribal hull principles influenced many of the Royal Navy's larger Second World War destroyers, while the superstructure built on earlier H-class practice and helped establish a later pattern. The unbuilt L70 is presented as the more dramatic missed successor: a large, heavily armed destroyer that could have made size and firepower the norm earlier. Repeated annual programmes might have placed roughly three dozen such large destroyers in service by 1940. Those ships would have been dangerous opponents for German destroyers and even some Italian light cruisers, showing how one cancelled design can redirect an entire force structure.