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Source: HMS Zenobia

A few ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zenobia, named after Zenobia, the Queen of the Palmyrene Empire who conquered Egypt.

HMS Zenobia (1806) was a 10-gun schooner or cutter launched in 1806 that was wrecked in October twenty miles south of Cape Henry, Virginia.
HMS Zenobia (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1835.
HMIS Zenobia (1839) was built at Waterford as Kilkenny in 1839 and purchased on the stocks for the Indian Navy for use as a paddle sloop; she was hulked in 1850
HMIS Zenobia (1851) was a steam frigate that the Bombay Dockyard built in 1851 for the Indian Navy
HMS Zenobia (K211) was a Flower-class corvette launched in 1941 and renamed Snowflake. She shared in the sinking on 3 July 1943 by gunfire of U-125. Sold in 1947 as weather ship Weather Watcher. Scrapped in May 1962 at Dublin.