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Five Tribal-class destroyers worth preserving

The preservation list favors wartime survivors Eskimo, Nubian, Tartar, Ashanti, and Haida over famous ships lost in action.

Question

Which five Tribal-class ships would you preserve as museums?

Short answer

Eskimo, Nubian, Tartar, Ashanti, and Haida, largely because all survived long enough for preservation to have been possible.

Notes

The preferred five are Eskimo, Nubian, Tartar, Ashanti, and Haida. The choice favors ships that survived the war and could therefore have been preserved afterward. Cossack is admired but excluded from this particular list because she sank during the war. The preference expresses frustration that surviving ships were scrapped when preservation was still possible. Recollections of Eskimo's damaged bows and Nubian's lost stern add their repair histories to the case for keeping them.