No formal document has been found stating that Tribal-class destroyers carried reload torpedoes. Action accounts, however, describe ships launching sequences of two, three, and another two or three torpedoes. Those totals exceed the four weapons available in the mounted tubes, so the crews must have reloaded from weapons stored elsewhere aboard. The discrepancy is a useful example of operational evidence revealing an unofficial practice absent from the published equipment list.
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The evidence for unofficial Tribal-class torpedo reloads
Action records describing seven- or eight-torpedo attacks imply that some Tribal destroyers carried reloads despite having only one quadruple launcher.