The first HMS Zulu was an Tribal (or F-) Class

Tribal class destroyer (1905)

The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I, where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols.-Design:The preceding River or E...

 destroyer

Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

 launched

Ship naming and launching

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 16 September 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 in March, 1910.

She was mined during the First World War

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, on 27 October 1916 off Dover, England

England

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. Minefield laid by imperial German Submarine UC-1. The stern

Stern

The stern is the rear or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite of the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Originally, the term only referred to the aft port section...

 was blown off and sank, but the forward section remained afloat. It was towed into port and attached to the stern of Nubian

HMS Nubian (1909)

HMS Nubian was a Royal Navy Tribal class destroyer. Her bows were destroyed by a torpedo from a German destroyer on the night of 26–27 October 1916 off Folkestone during the Battle of Dover Strait. She was taken in tow and run ashore near Dover....

, which had been torpedoed, to form a new destroyer named HMS Zubian

HMS Zubian

HMS Zubian was a First World War Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer constructed from the forward end of HMS Zulu and the rear and mid sections of HMS Nubian. The name Zubian is a portmanteau of the names of the original ships....

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