Allied Warships

HMS Zambesi (R 66)

Destroyer of the Z class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Z
Pennant	R 66
Built by	Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.)
Ordered	12 Feb 1942
Laid down	21 Dec 1942
Launched	21 Nov 1943
Commissioned	18 Jul 1944
End service
History	Scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales 12 February 1959.

Commands listed for HMS Zambesi (R 66)

Please note that we're still working on this section.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Walter Scott, DSC, RN	27 Mar 1944	10 Mar 1945
2	Lt.Cdr. Joseph Mansergh Palmer, RN	10 Mar 1945	late 1946

You can help improve our commands section
Click here to Submit events/comments/updates for this vessel.
Please use this if you spot mistakes or want to improve this ships page.

Notable events involving Zambesi include:

19 Sep 1944
HMS Scythian (T/Lt C.P. Thode, RNZNVR) conducted A/S exercises at Scapa Flow with HMS Zambesi (Lt.Cdr. W. Scott, DSC and Bar, RN). (1)

20 Sep 1944
HMS Scythian (T/Lt C.P. Thode, RNZNVR) conducted A/S exercises at Scapa Flow with HMS Zambesi (Lt.Cdr. W. Scott, DSC and Bar, RN). (1)

16 Apr 1945
HMS Scorcher (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Scapa Flow with HMS Savage (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Malins, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Zambesi (Lt.Cdr. J.M. Palmer, RN). (2)

18 Apr 1945
At 0341 hours, HMS Varne (Lt. I.G. Raikes, DSC, RN), was illuminated by friendly destroyers that were operating in the area. HMS Varne was out of position and did not identify herself before crash diving. She was lucky not to be depth charged.

The friendly destroyers encountered were HMS Scorpion (Cdr. C.W. McMullen, DSC, RN), HMS Savage (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Malins, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN), HMS Scourge (Lt.Cdr. C.G.H. Brown, DSC, RN) and HMS Zambesi (Lt.Cdr. J.M. Palmer, RN). They were on operation 'Invective', an anti-shipping raid. (3)

20 Apr 1945
HMS Trusty (Lt. W. St.G. Anderson, DSC, RNR) conducts exercises with HMS Carysfort (Lt.Cdr. L. St.G. Rich, DSO and Bar, RN), HMS Zambesi (Lt.Cdr. J.M. Palmer, RN) and ORP Garland (Lt. K. Hess). (4)