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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} Six ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Zebra''''', after the [[Zebra]]. * {{HMS|Zebra|1777}} was a 14-gun [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1777. She was abandoned and blown up after going aground on 22 October 1778 at [[Little Egg Harbor]], [[New Jersey]], during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. * {{HMS|Zebra|1780}}, launched in 1780, was an 18-gun sloop, converted to a bomb vessel, and sold in 1812. * {{HMS|Zebra|1815}}, launched in 1815, was the last of the 18-gun {{sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop}}s. She spent much of her career based at [[Port Jackson]], [[Australia]]. She was wrecked on 2 December 1840 near [[Haifa]]. * A 16-gun brig-sloop was named ''Zebra'' in 1846 but renamed ''Jumna'' before being launched in 1848. * {{HMS|Zebra|1860}}, launched on 13 November 1860, was a sloop of the {{sclass|Camelion|sloop|4}}. She was scrapped in 1873. * {{HMS|Zebra|1895}}, launched on 3 December 1895, was the [[lead ship]] of [[Zebra-class destroyer|her class]] of [[destroyer]]s. She was sold for scrap in 1914. * A destroyer of the [[V and W-class destroyer|V and W class]] was to have been named ''Zebra'', but she was cancelled in 1919. * A destroyer of the [[W and Z-class destroyer|W and Z class]] was to have been named ''Zebra'', but was renamed {{HMS|Wakeful|1943|2}} on the stocks before being launched in 1943. * {{HMS|Zebra|R81}} was a [[W and Z-class destroyer|Z-class]] destroyer, originally named ''Wakeful'', but renamed on the stocks to make way for her sister ship. She was launched on 18 March 1944 at [[William Denny & Brothers]] shipyard in [[Dumbarton]], [[Scotland]] and [[ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 13 October 1945.
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