HMS Zulu (1909)

HMS Zulu
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Zulu
Builder	Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard
Laid down	18 August 1908
Launched	16 September 1909
Commissioned	19 March 1910
Honours and awards	Belgian Coast[1]
Fate	Mined, 8 November 1916 and used to build a second destroyer, HMS Zubian
General characteristics
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	1,017 long tons (1,033 t) normal, 1,136 long tons (1,154 t) deep load
Length	285 ft (86.87 m)
Beam	27 ft (8.23 m)
Draught	9 ft 4+1⁄2 in (2.858 m)
Installed power	15,500 shp (11,600 kW)
Propulsion	4 boilers feeding steam turbines driving three screws
Speed	33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	1,630 nmi (3,020 km; 1,880 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	71
Armament	2 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes

The first HMS Zulu was a 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.