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 |
| Fate: | Mined, 8 November 1916 and used to build a second destroyer, HMS Zubian |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
|
| 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: |
|
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.
Zulu was one of five Tribal-class destroyers ordered by the British Admiralty in January 1908 under the 1907–1908 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy. The Tribal-class destroyers were to be powered by steam turbines and use oil-fuel rather than coal, and be capable of 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph), but detailed design was left to the builders, which meant that individual ships of the class differed greatly.
Zulu was 285 feet 0 inches (86.87 m) long overall and 280 feet 1 1⁄4 inches (85.38 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 27 feet 0 inches (8.23 m) and a draught of 9 feet 4 1⁄2 inches (2.86 m). Normal displacement was 1,017 long tons (1,033 t), with deep load displacement 1,136 long tons (1,154 t). Six Yarrow boilers fed steam to Parsons steam turbines, giving 15,500 shaft horsepower (11,600 kW) and driving three propeller shafts. The main high-pressure turbine drove the centre shaft, with the outer shafts being fitted with low-pressure turbines, together with cruise and astern turbines. The outtakes from the boilers were fed to four funnels. Range was 1,630 nautical miles (3,020 km; 1,880 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).
...
Wikipedia