HMS Zealous
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zealous, whilst another had been planned, but was cancelled.
- HMS ZealousHMS Zealous (1785)HMS Zealous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Barnard of Deptford and launched on 25 June 1785.She served in a number of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, notably the Battle of the Nile, where she engaged the French ship Guerrier,...
, a 74 gun ship, launched in 1785 and broken up in 1816. She served at the Battle of the NileBattle of the NileThe Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...
. - HMS ZealousHMS Zealous (1864)HMS Zealous was one of the three ships forming the second group of wooden steam battleships selected in 1860 for conversion to ironclads. This was done in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the large French ironclad building programme...
, a second-rate ship of the line, later converted to an iron clad. - HMS ZealousHMS Zealous (1919)HMS Zealous was to have been a modified W class destroyer built by the yards of Yarrow, and the third ship to bear the name Zealous. After the end of the First World War, construction was cancelled in March 1919....
was a planned modified W class destroyerV and W class destroyerThe V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme of the First World War and generally treated as one class...
, cancelled in 1919. - HMS ZealousHMS Zealous (R39)HMS Zealous was a Z-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built in 1944 by Cammell Laird. She served during the Second World War, participating in operations in the North Sea and off the Norwegian coast, before taking part in some of the Arctic convoys...
was a Z Class DestroyerW and Z class destroyerThe W and Z class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1943–1944. They were constructed as two flotillas, with names beginning with "W-" and "Z-", respectively, although, like the preceding U and V class, two of the flotilla leaders were named after historical naval...
built in 1944. She was commissioned into the Israeli Navy as Eilat and sunk in 1967.