HMS Zebra

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Zebra, after the Zebra.

• Template:HMS was a 14-gun 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.
• Template:HMS, launched in 1780, was an 18-gun sloop, converted to a bomb vessel, and sold in 1812.
• Template:HMS, launched in 1815, was the last of the 18-gun Template:Sclasss. 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.
• Template:HMS, launched on 13 November 1860, was a sloop of the Template:Sclass. She was scrapped in 1873.
• Template:HMS, launched on 3 December 1895, was the lead ship of her class of destroyers. She was sold for scrap in 1914.
• A destroyer of the V and W class was to have been named Zebra, but she was cancelled in 1919.
• A destroyer of the W and Z class was to have been named Zebra, but was renamed Template:HMS on the stocks before being launched in 1943.
• Template:HMS was a 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 commissioned on 13 October 1945.

References

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: {{#if:|The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy|The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy}}
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8

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