Name: | ZULU |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 18/08/1908 |
Launched: | 16/09/1909 |
Completed: | 16/03/1910 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 428 |
Dimensions: | 1027disp - 1154disp, 280.0 x 27.0 x 9.4(draft)ft |
Engines: | 3 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 12500shp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 3 x Screws, 33.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 1 x 4.0ins guns; 2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes |
History: | |
16/03/1910 | British Royal Navy |
08/11/1916 | Sank |
Comments: | A Tribal Class Destroyer |
08/11/1916: Mined in the Dover Straits. Stern blown off and sank | |
Forepart of ship salvaged & joined to aftpart of NUBIAN | |
Combined new destroyer named ZUBIAN |
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Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum