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The Royal Navy prepared a deep list of Tribal-class names

A formal survey of martial reputations supplied enough names for several further batches of Tribal-class destroyers.

Question

How would the Royal Navy name additional batches of Tribal-class destroyers?

Short answer

It already had a long surveyed list of imperial peoples, enough to name several additional batches.

Notes

The Royal Navy assembled a list of roughly forty to fifty candidate names drawn from peoples of the British Empire and assessed their martial histories. A second group of sixteen destroyers could therefore have used names already selected rather than shifting to unrelated European tribal names.