High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Zebra, was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built of teak by the East India Company dockyard in Bombay and launched in 1815 as the last of the Cruizer-class. The master shipwright was Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia. She was commissioned in December 1815 under Commander Robert Forbes for passage to England. However, Philip Henry Bridges was acting commander of Zebra from December 1815-November 1816, then he was promoted into Challenger. In May 1816, she arrived in Madras from Calcutta, and by August she was at Simon's Bay. By 14 December 1816, she had reached Portsmouth where she was paid off into Ordinary, where she stayed until 1825. In February 1825, she was recommissioned for the Mediterranean under Cdr. Edward R. Williams and sailed in May.