HMS Zest
R.02
1944
(SeaVee SV-557)
- Class: Z - 8 destroyers of 1942
- Displacement: 1,830 tons standard / 2,530 tons full load
- Dimensions: 362'9" (oa) x 35'9" x 14' (fl)
- Machinery: 2-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 40,000 = 36 knots
- Armament: 4-4.5in QF Mk IV DP (4x1), 2-40mm Mk IV (1x2), 6-20mm (2x2+2x1); 8-21in (2x4) TT
- ASW: 4 A/S mortars, 2 DCR, 70 depth charges
- Complement: 179
- Builder: Thornycroft, Woodston
- Laid Down: 21 Jul 1942
- Launched: 14 Oct 1943
- Completed: 20 Jul 1944
- Notes: A member of the Z class, the 10th Emergency Flotilla. Served with the Home Fleet on several convoys to Russia and helped take surrender of German naval units at Copenhagen in May. Postwar she was refitted 1946-47 and then served as part of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla with the Home Fleet. During 1954-56 she was converted to a Type 15 anti-submarine frigate at Chatham Dockyard and given the new pennant number F102; she was the only Z-class destroyer to so modified. She served on various stations until paid off in 1968, and was scrapped in 1970.
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