H.M.S. Zubian (1917)

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H.M.S. Zubian (1917)
Pendant Number: D.20 (Aug 1917)
D.99 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Chatham Royal Dockyard[2]
Launched: 7 Jun, 1917[3]
Commissioned: 2 Jul, 1917[4]
Sold: 9 Dec, 1919[5]

H.M.S. Zubian was a playfully-named destroyer created by joining the forward section of the mined Zulu to the aft part of the Nubian, which had been torpedoed. The result was a serviceably spliced craft which one might call one of the "Tribals".

Service

Many contemporary accounts record that on 4 February, 1918, Zubian sank the UC 50 while under the command of Lt. Henry James Hartnoll.[6][7] Later research has formed a stronger view that the submarine attacked (and not sunk) was the homeward-bound UC 79.[8]

In July of 1918, Zubian was serving in the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Dover Patrol.

By May 1919, Zubian was among 33 ships listed as awaiting sale.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

A Lieutenant, R.N.R. I cannot identify, "T. J. B. Wood", was appointed in command on 4 March, 1919.[12]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 60.
  6. Smith. Hard Lying. p. 102.
  7. Hartnoll Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/53/86. f. 85.
  8. Email from Michael Lowrey 20201129, citing Robert M. Grant's 1969 book U-Boat Intelligence, pp 83, 84.
  9. The Navy List. (May, 1919). pp. 1105, 1105b.
  10. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 399i.
  11. The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 945a.
  12. "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Mar 05, 1919; pg. 4; Issue 42040.

Bibliography


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