Allied Warships

HMS Zephyr (R 19)

Destroyer of the Z class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Z
Pennant	R 19
Built by	Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Parsons
Ordered	12 Feb 1942
Laid down	13 Jul 1942
Launched	15 Jul 1943
Commissioned	6 Sep 1944
End service
History	Scrapped at Dunston on 2 July 1958.

Commands listed for HMS Zephyr (R 19)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, DSC, RN	18 Jul 1944	15 Dec 1944
2	Capt. John Hamilton Allison, DSO, RN	15 Dec 1944	25 Jun 1945
3	Lt.Cdr. Cuthbert Richard Purse, DSC, RN	25 Jun 1945

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Notable events involving Zephyr include:

14 Sep 1944
HMS Trusty (Lt. E.T. Stanley, DSO, DSC, RN) conducts A/S exercises with HMS Verulam (Lt.Cdr. W.S. Thomas, DSC, RN), HMS Cassandra (Cdr. P.F. Powlett, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN) and later on the day with HMS Zephyr (Lt.Cdr. J.F.D. Bush, DSC and 2 Bars, RN). (1)

18 Nov 1944
During the morning HMS Taciturn (Lt.Cdr. E.T. Stanley, DSO, DSC, RN) conducts A/S exercises with HMS Vigilant (Lt.Cdr. L.W.L. Argles, RN) and HMS Vesper (Lt.Cdr. V.D. Ravenscroft, RN). During the afternoon A/S exercises were carried out with HMS Zephyr (Capt. J.H. Allison, DSO and Bar, RN). (2)

31 Dec 1944
On 31 Dec, 1944, the British destroyer HMS Zephyr (Lt.Cdr. J.F.D. Bush, DSC and 2 Bars, RN) was slightly damaged by an explosion west of the Pentland Firth. According to British reports this was very likely caused by a floating mine and not by a torpedo. U-1020 was long believed to have hit the destroyer. (3)