HMS Zulu (1909)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Zulu.
 HMS Zulu | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Zulu |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard |
| Launched: | 16 September 1909 |
| Commissioned: | March 1910 |
| Fate: | Mined, 1916 and used to build a second destroyer |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
| 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 |
The first HMS Zulu was an Tribal (or F-) class destroyer launched 16 September 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned in March 1910.
She was mined during the First World War, on 27 October 1916 off Dover in a minefield lain by the Imperial German submarine UC-1. Her 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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