A 2020 article in the magazine Naval History describes "Frankenships" -- ships that, like Frankenstein's monster, are built from parts of destroyed or damaged vessels.
HMS Nubian was a Tribal-class destroyer that was built in 1909 and torpedoed by a German u-boat in 1916 and lost her bow. HMS Zulu, a destroyer of the same class, hit a German mine in 1916 and lost her stern.
Engineers at Chatham Dockyard reasoned that, since the two ships were of the same class, it would be feasible for them join front half of Nubian to the back half of Zulu and put this new vessel into service. Thus the Royal Navy's Zubian --a name derived from those of her parents--was born in 1917. She would serve until disposed of in the postwar culling of the Navy 1919.
-via US Naval Institute
