HMS Nubian was a Royal Navy . She was launched in 1909 and torpedoed in 1916. With her bow blown off, the wreck was used to create a new ship by joining the bow of another destroyer of the same class, . The resulting ship was given the portmanteau name . She went on to sink the U-boat in 1918 and was scrapped in 1919. Commissioning Nubian was launched on 20 April 1909, her keel plate having been laid down on 18 May 1908 at the Thornycroft yard in Woolston, Southampton. The ship was commissioned for service in the First Destroyer Flotilla by Commander Colin McKenzie at Sheerness on 3 September 1909. Powered by oil-fired steam turbines producing a total of around , she replaced a in the flotilla. Steam trials had taken place at the mouth of the Thames in June of that year. A long, four-funnelled, triple-screwed ship with a beam of , Nubian displaced slightly under 1,000 tons and had a crew of 70. She could sail at and had a pair of BL guns, one mounted at the fore and one aft, as well as two torpedo tubes. Movements The First Destroyer Flotilla was based at Harwich with the purpose of defending Britain's east coast. It was planned to include 12 ocean-going destroyers capable of 33 knots. Within a month of commissioning, Nubian had taken part in exercises at the Cromarty Firth with ships including , and . The flotilla was present at a gathering of the Royal Navy fleet near to Penzance in July 1910 and in September that year Nubian had her annual refit at Chatham Dockyard. In March 1911, she and other members of the flotilla moved from Harwich to Portland, while the Second Destroyer Flotilla moved away from there to Plymouth. She was at Kirkwall in May 1911 and took part in the huge naval review at Spithead in June. Nubian had a refit and basin trials of her machinery at Chatham in May 1912 before joining the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla at Portland for exercises in the English Channel. Together with fellow Fourth Destroyer Flotilla Tribal-class ships and Zulu, and the cruiser from the Second Squadron, Nubian sailed up the Manchester Ship Canal on 24 May that year to take part in a Whitsuntide display at the city. Most sources say that a smaller ship, Hope, was in attendance but some say