HMS Zulu (F18)
Service
- as Zulu? — 14 September 19421,109 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Zulu
- Pennant / hull number
- F18
- Namesake
- Zulu people
- Builder
- Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse
- Ordered
- 10 March 1936
- Laid down
- 27 August 1936
- Launched
- 23 September 1937
- Fate
- Sunk by aircraft, 14 September 1942
By aircraft (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,891 long tons (1,921 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,519 long tons (2,559 t)
- Length
- 114.91 m (377 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,700 nmi (10,556 km)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Zulu was a Tribal-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number F18. The ship was named after Zulu people. Alexander Stephen and Sons, Linthouse laid her keel on 27 August 1936. She was launched on 23 September 1937.
Her class ran to 24 ships. The class followed the I-class destroyer and was succeeded by the J class.
Displacement was 1,891 long tons standard and 2,519 long tons at full load. She measured 114.9 m (377 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was eight 119 mm (4.7 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 44,000 shp.
She was in commission for 1,109 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 14 September 1942 by aircraft, at 32°00′N 28°56′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 44000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns
- 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers
Sister ships
- HMAS Arunta (I30)
- HMAS Bataan
- HMAS Warramunga (I44)
- HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
- HMCS Haida
- HMCS Huron (G24)
- HMCS Iroquois (G89)
- HMCS Nootka (R96)
- HMS Afridi (F07)
- HMS Ashanti (F51)
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Cossack (F03)
- HMS Eskimo (F75)
- HMS Gurkha (F20)
- HMS Maori (F24)
- HMS Mashona
- HMS Matabele
- HMS Mohawk (F31)
- HMS Nubian (F36)
- HMS Punjabi
- HMS Sikh (F82)
- HMS Somali
- HMS Tartar (F43)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Zulu (F18) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//20/media-20057/large.jpg This photograph FL 21966 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons