H.M.S. Zodiac (R 54) - A Z-class destroyer built at Thonycroft yard at Southampton and launched in March 1944. After the war the vessel formed part of the Reserve Fleet at Penarth Dock during which time she was refitted at Penarth in 1954 and renamed R54, then subsequently laid-up at Cardiff Docks. She was sold to the Israeli Navy following a further refit at Liverpool and served them in the years 1956 - 1970 being renamed. K-42 INS Yafo.  In 1970 she was in use as a target vessel and sustained a hit by a Gabriel missile and sank.  

The photograph is courtesy of the Imperial War Museum and is part of the Ministry of Defence Foxhill Collection of Photographs. © IWM (H 21957) [266]

H.M.S. Zodiac (D 54) - A photograph of her in 1943 under her original pennant number D54. Her armament included 4 x 4.5" guns, 5 x 40mm guns and she had 8 torpedo tubes. With a speed of 37 knots which was powered by 2 superheated steam boilers feeding geared turbines with twin prop-shafts, and with an output of 40,000 horse-power, she was a formidable vessel. Thanks to the Royal Naval History website for the information. [561]