For other ships of the same name, see HMS Zulu.
| HMS Zulu (1909) | |
|---|---|
 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 & 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, England. Minefield laid by imperial German Submarine UC-1. 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.
The original article can be found at HMS Zulu (1909) and the edit history here.