HMS Zulu (1909)
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard |
| Launched: | September 16, 1909 |
| Commissioned: | March, 1910 |
| Fate: | Mined, 1916 and used to build a second destroyer |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1027 tons |
| Length: | 270 ft (82 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught: | 8.5 ft (2.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 boilers feeding steam turbines driving three screws |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) maximum |
| Complement: | 70 |
| Armament: | 2 x 4 inch (102 mm) guns 2 x 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Zulu.
The first HMS Zulu was an Tribal (or F-) Class destroyer launched September 16, 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned in March, 1910.
She was mined during the First World War, on October 27, 1916 off Dover, England. The stern was blown off and sank, but the forward section remained afloat. It was towed into port and attached to the stern of Nubian, which had been torpedoed, to form a new destroyer named HMS Zubian.
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