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HMS Zulu (F124) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after an ethnic group located primarily in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Zulu was built by Alex Stephens & Sons Shipbuilders of Govan. She was launched on the 3rd July 1962 and commissioned on the 17th April 1964.

Zulu was the only Tribal built with Seacat missiles; her six sister frigates were built with two 40 mm Bofor guns and fitted with Seacat during later refits.

In 1972, a United States Navy (USN) P-3 Orion aircraft crashed on a mountain in northern Morocco. Zulu sent her Westland Wasp helicopter to the wreckage sight, where the helicopter sadly found five dead bodies. All fourteen of the aeroplane's crew were killed. In 1974, Zulu deployed to the West Indies. In 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i, while in the western hemisphere, Zulu patrolled the coast of BelizeBelize is a small nation in Central America, on the Caribbean Sea bordering Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south. Honduras lies 75 km away at the two nations' closest point across the Gulf of Honduras to the east. In the Spanish lan, which was at that time threatened by its neighbours, specifically GuatemalaFor the city, see Guatemala City. The Republic of Guatemala is a country in Central America, in the south of the continent of North America, bordering both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, Belize to the north, who had desires to annex a large amount of Belizean territory.

In 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar, Zulu took part in the last, so far, Fleet Review of the Royal Navy. It took place in honour of HM the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Later that year, Zulu, along with her sister-ship MohawkHMS Mohawk (F125 was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after a tribe of Native Americans, who are located in Southeast Canada and New York State. Mohawk was built by Vickers of Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched on the 5th Apri, was part of the eight-ship Group 6 deployment, led by the cruiser Tiger, that deployed to the Far East, visiting a variety of ports in fly-the-flag visits, as-well as performing naval exercises. Zulu returned home, along with the rest of the Group, in 1978Events January January 1 The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay 213 dead. January 4 Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet., via the Mediterranean, where the group, minus Mohawk, which had suffered slight hull damage in an accident in Malta, performed naval exercises before returning to the UK.

In 1979, Zulu was placed in Reserve, the Standby Squadron , and was placed on the disposal list in 1981. The following year, in response to the Falklands War, Zulu was taken out of Reserve, so that she could fill in the gaps in Home Waters created by the many warships that had deployed to the South Atlantic to take part in the war. The following year, Zulu became the Gibraltar Guardship . In 1984, Zulu was decommissioned and subsequently sold to Indonesia along with two of her sister-ships. Zulu was renamed Martha Kristina Tiyahahu. Martha Kristina Tiyahahu remains in service with the Indonesian Navy .