HMS Zulu (F18)

HMS Zulu ( F18/G18/L18 ) was a destroyer of the Tribal class of the Royal Navy.

The ship was on August 10, 1936 set at the shipyard of Alexander Stephen & Sons in Glasgow to Kiel, launched on September 23, 1937, and put into service on September 7, 1938.

After the acceptance tests, the Zulu was assigned to the Mediterranean and met on 18 November 1938 in Malta, where she was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla. When war broke out it was used together with her ​​sister ships as escorts for convoys. The largest part of 1942 was the Zulu stationed as part of Force H in Gibraltar and attacked from there supply convoys of the Axis powers on. On 4 August 1942, she met with HMS Sikh, HMS Croome and HMS Tetcott before Haifa on the German submarine U 372 and sank it. On 13 and 14 September she covered along with HMS Sikh a command attack on Tobruk. The Sikh was badly damaged by shore batteries. In an attempt to rescue the survivors of the Sikh Zulu was also hit. On September 14, 1942, she was taken under command of an Italian aircraft hit by a bomb. The crew of HMS Zulu was taken over for the most part by the HMS Croome before the ship sank.