An item referred tot the magazine Revista Marittime dated July 1939 reporting that the 16-1.870 ton destroyers of the Tribal-class with a speed of 36 knots and an armament of 8-12cm/4.7’ and 4-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes were commissioned. The new destroyers were divided of the 6th flotilla part of the Home Fleet namely the Somali, Ashanti, Eskimo, Matabele, Bedouin, Mashona, Punjabi and Tartar and over the 7th flotilla part of the Mediterranean Fleet namely the Afridi, Cossack, Mohawk, Sikh, Zulu, Gurkha, Maori and Nubian. Some of the 1.690 ton destroyers of the J-class were also commissioned and divided over the same flotillas. The J-class destroyers had with a horsepower of 40.000hp a speed of 36 knots and an armament of 6-12cm/4” guns and 10-53,3cm/21” torpedo tubes.
