The Z Class of the Emergency War Programme destroyers was a Class of eight destroyers, with Myngs as Flotilla Leader, the rest were: Zephyr, Zambesi, Zealous, Zebra, Zenith, Zest and Zodiac. Myngs and Zenith were later transferred to Egypt as El Qaher and El Fateh. Zealous and Zodiac were later transferred to Israel as Eilat and Yaffo. Zebra, Zephyr and Zambesi were broken up in 1958/9. Zest was converted to a Type 15 Anti Submarine Frigates post-war - see this thread.
Some Class photos:
Myngs
Zambesi
Zealous
Zebra
Zenith
Zephyr
Zest
Zodiac
RN Destroyers: Z Class 1943
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jbryce1437
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RN Destroyers: Z Class 1943
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JEM, EM, OEM, LOEM, POOEL
Then 28 years in the Fire Brigade
Retired since 2002
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Re: RN Destroyers: Z Class
Remember Zest very well........ as its detailed photo's of her that I used to build Troubridge from,.. will keep an eye open for a picture of her when I go to the boat show , but thats a few years ago now and the model my not exist anymore 
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Re: RN Destroyers: Z Class 1943
its only when you see the size of the screws on these destroyers that you understand how much power they needed to run them up to 30+ knots, as in El Fatah in dry-dock...
here is my only Z picture, Myngs; I think I mentioned earlier somewhere else that the Admiralty ordered ship in Flotillas of 8, each with a name beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, flotillas were made up of 2 divisions, a leader for one and all, a half leader for the second division. Leaders confusingly did not use the sequential letter, as in Hardy, leader of the V-flotilla, and here, Myngs as leader of the Z-flotilla. Leaders had the broad black band round the funnel, half-leaders a half size black band. Leaders also did not, for a time, display pennant numbers on the flanks.
strictly speaking these flotillas were not actually classes, all these flotillas were the same class, "Emergency Class" destroyers the actual ships were 99% the same, I say 99% because each builder had certain foibles in final details but the main scheme of construction was the same. The C-Ca & Ch destroyers which followed the Z-flotilla, they ran out of letters precedent after working their way from Amazon to Zephyr (with the Tribals and a few odd ones in between) so had to move on to new flotilla designation but the ships were pretty much the same design.
Amazon to Ivanhoe (to use John English's book title describing the earlier pre-war destroyers) were different in being smaller, lighter and having their accommodation inconveniently arranges in the Nelsonian manner of officers aft, men forrard. They were much closer in concept to the V&W class. The Emergency destroyers rearranged this so the officers lived below the bridge and everyone was closer to their place of work avoiding the danger of going overboard on their way to the office. The Emergencies were significantly bigger, longer-legged much more comfortable although comfort is a very relative term. The Type 15 conversions were even better in this respect because the actually had internal passage from bow to stern, the Burma Road.
The next group of "classic" destroyers to follow the "C"s was the Battles which were still larger and heavier taking advantage of turret mounted main guns, 4.5 instead of 4.7 but with a slightly heftier projectile, they had an extra 10,000 SHP to push their added bulk along at the 30+ kts required but by the end of the 1950 were generally speaking already obsolete, but they are another story.
The Admiralty moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.
here is my only Z picture, Myngs; I think I mentioned earlier somewhere else that the Admiralty ordered ship in Flotillas of 8, each with a name beginning with the next letter of the alphabet, flotillas were made up of 2 divisions, a leader for one and all, a half leader for the second division. Leaders confusingly did not use the sequential letter, as in Hardy, leader of the V-flotilla, and here, Myngs as leader of the Z-flotilla. Leaders had the broad black band round the funnel, half-leaders a half size black band. Leaders also did not, for a time, display pennant numbers on the flanks.
strictly speaking these flotillas were not actually classes, all these flotillas were the same class, "Emergency Class" destroyers the actual ships were 99% the same, I say 99% because each builder had certain foibles in final details but the main scheme of construction was the same. The C-Ca & Ch destroyers which followed the Z-flotilla, they ran out of letters precedent after working their way from Amazon to Zephyr (with the Tribals and a few odd ones in between) so had to move on to new flotilla designation but the ships were pretty much the same design.
Amazon to Ivanhoe (to use John English's book title describing the earlier pre-war destroyers) were different in being smaller, lighter and having their accommodation inconveniently arranges in the Nelsonian manner of officers aft, men forrard. They were much closer in concept to the V&W class. The Emergency destroyers rearranged this so the officers lived below the bridge and everyone was closer to their place of work avoiding the danger of going overboard on their way to the office. The Emergencies were significantly bigger, longer-legged much more comfortable although comfort is a very relative term. The Type 15 conversions were even better in this respect because the actually had internal passage from bow to stern, the Burma Road.
The next group of "classic" destroyers to follow the "C"s was the Battles which were still larger and heavier taking advantage of turret mounted main guns, 4.5 instead of 4.7 but with a slightly heftier projectile, they had an extra 10,000 SHP to push their added bulk along at the 30+ kts required but by the end of the 1950 were generally speaking already obsolete, but they are another story.
The Admiralty moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.
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