Allied Warships

HMS Zest (R 02)

Destroyer of the Z class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Z
Pennant	R 02
Built by	Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.)
Ordered	12 Feb 1942
Laid down	21 Jul 1942
Launched	14 Oct 1943
Commissioned	20 Jul 1944
End service
History	Reconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1954-1956. Scrapped at Dalmuir in August 1970.

Commands listed for HMS Zest (R 02)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Roger Bertram Nettleton Hicks, DSO, RN	6 Jun 1944	23 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Zest include:

18 Dec 1944
HMS Trusty (Lt. J.P. Fyfe, DSC, RN) conducts A/S exercises with HMS Zest (Lt.Cdr. R.B.N. Hicks, DSO, RN). (1)

17 Feb 1945
HMS Zest (Lt.Cdr. R.B.N. Hicks, DSO, RN) picks up the sole survivor from the British corvette HMS Bluebell that was torpedoed and sunk that day by German U-boat U-711 off Kola Inlet in position 69°36'N, 35°29'E.