HMS ''Zebra'' was the first ship to bear the name in the British Navy. She was a 14 gun

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of the ''Swan'' class, launched on 8 April 1777. She was abandoned and blown up after going aground on 22 October 1778 at

Little Egg Harbor Little Egg Harbor is a brackish bay along the coast of southeast New Jersey. It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the Intracoastal Waterway The Intracoa ...

, New Jersey, during the

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after only one year in service.

References

* *Winfield, Rif, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Zebra (1777) Sloops of the Royal Navy Shipwrecks of the New Jersey coast 1777 ships Maritime incidents in 1778 Swan-class ship-sloops