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HMS Zubian--A "Frankenship" Built out of Halves of Two Damaged Ships

Summary by neatorama.com
A 2020 article in the magazine Naval History describes "Frankenships" -- ships that, like Frankenstein's monster, are built from parts of other destroyed or damaged vessels.HMS Nubian was a Tribal-class destroyer that was built in 1909 and torpedoed by a German u-boat in 1916 and lost her bow. HMS Zulu, a destroyer of the same class, hit a German mine in 1916 and lost her stern.Engineers at Chatham Dockyard reasoned that, since the two ships wer…
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neatorama.com broke the news in on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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