HMS Maori
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There have been two Royal Navy ships called HMS Maori after the indigenous people of New Zealand:
- MaoriHMS Maori (1909)HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1909 and sunk in 1915. During the First World War, she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, being sunk by a mine in 1915 off Zeebrugge....
, a Tribal-classTribal class destroyer (1905)The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I, where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols.-Design:The preceding River or E...
destroyer sunk in 1915. - MaoriHMS Maori (F24)HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 6 June 1936, launched on 2 September 1937 by Mrs. W. J. Jordan and commissioned on 2 January 1939...
, a later Tribal-classTribal class destroyer (1936)The Tribal class, or Afridi class, were a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy that saw service in World War II...
destroyer launched 1936 and sunk 1942.