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So it seems post WW 1 the Royal Navy settled on a Class of destroyers being a Flotilla of 8 ships and a leader .
I'm not sure how this number was arrived at . Maybe the decision was financial .
How about they selected a different number . Say Flotillas of 6 plus a leader or 10 plus a leader . Obviously this would have altered number of destroyers available .
I wonder where 8 ships plus a leader came from as an optimum size .whether it was driven by tactics or by cost considerations?