Career | |
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Name: | HMS Zebra |
Builder: | Barnard, Ipswich |
Launched: | 8 April 1777 |
Fate: | Wrecked 1778 |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen: | 306 bm |
Length: | 97 ft (30 m) |
Beam: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Armament: | 14 guns |
HMS Zebra was the first ship to bear the name. She was a 14 gun sloop. She was launched on 8 April 1777. She was abandoned and blown up after going aground on 22 October 1778 at Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War after only one year in service.