Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When they saw the stern half of their ship still floating nicely, they rowed their lifeboat alongside, reboarded her, got up steam and backed toward shore. A rising sea finally foundered their half-ship. This episode reminded sailors of the destroyers Nubian and Zulu in World War I. The Nubian was torpedoed, lost her bow, but her crew made shore with the after half. The Zulu, which lost her stern striking a mine, was towed in. Then the Zulu forward half was fitted to the Nubian stern half and the resulting destroyer Zubian served for the duration...