INS Yaffo (1955)
HMS ''Zodiac'' was a W and Z-class destroyer, Z-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built in 1944 by J I Thornycroft, John I. Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire, Woolston. 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 of World War II, Arctic convoys. She spent a further ten years in Royal Navy service after the end of the war, before being sold to the Israeli Navy, which operated her as INS ''Yaffo''. She saw action during the Suez Crisis in 1956, attacking Egyptian ships and was still active by the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967. Second World War On commissioning and work up ''Zodiac'' joined the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, as part of the Home Fleet. She operated in the North West approaches and escorted some Russian convoys. In 1945 she was part of the 29th Destroyer Flotilla along with and ; she was briefly stationed in the port of Wilhelmshaven, the main base o ...
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