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	HMS Cossack
		HMS Cossack (L-03/F-03/G-03) was a Tribal class destroyer laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937 by Mrs.
		Cossack participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in April 1940 and in the pursuit and destruction of the enemy German battleship Bismarck in May 1941.
		HMS Cossack was struck by one torpedo fired by the enemy German submarine U-563 as she escorted a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom on 21 October 1941 which killed 159 of her crew.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_cossack.html (174 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project - HMS Cossack
		HMS Cossack was lost on the 24th October 1941 having left Gibraltar escorting a convoy to England.
		Cossack was at the rear of the convoy on the 23rd Oct when a torpedo from U-563 hit just forward of the bridge killing Captain Berthon and 158 of his officers and men.
		HMS Cossack did not sink as a result of the torpedo, but was lost in bad weather as an attempt was made to tow her back to Gibraltar.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /ships/cossack.html (188 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Cossack of the Tribal class
		Cossack, being the leader of the 8th Division, also accompanied HMS Maori, HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian on various exercises.
		Cossack's stem plating had to be repaired as a result of bumping into Altmark but it was a small price to pay for the saving of human lives.
		On 14th July, HMS Cossack, HMS Maori and HMS Sikh arrived in Gibraltar to take part in Operation Substance, the reinforcement of Malta's garrison which was expected to repel an anticipated German airborne assault.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4423.html (1264 words)

	HMS Zulu
		In early 1941, HMS Cossack, HMS Maori, HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu were mainly employed in escorting convoys in and out of the Western approaches.
		HMS Zulu and HMS Sikh's final operation together was the attack on Tobruk, Libya on 13/14th September 1942.
		The 4th Destroyer Flotilla comprising the British destroyers HMS Cossack, HMS Maori, HMS Sikh, HMS Zulu and the Polish destroyer Piorun was escorting convoy WS-8B when they recieved an order to leave the convoy and take part in the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G18 (628 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: I was there! Where? The autobiography of crewman Alec Kelloway
		Cossack was lying on a buoy and was discharging her ammunition, as she had to be dry-docked for extensive repairs.
		During this exercise HMS Imogen, a destroyer, was rammed by a cruiser, eventually sank with several of her crew.
		Cossack with three other destroyers sailed from Rossyth under the Forth Bridge on this assignment but as we cleared the bridge on line ahead the last ship was damaged by an acoustic mine and had to return to Rossyth.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/kellaway/chapter4.html (2482 words)

	HMS COSSACK
		HMS COSSACK, the most famous of the British Tribals, had an embarrassing debut at Portsmouth England on 12th June 1938, when she dented her brand new bows coming alongside the jetty.
		Four men were killed in COSSACK and ZULU had to send across a party to free one of the casualties trapped in plating, which had been curled back by the impact.
		COSSACK was sent for repairs to Leith, England thus missing further action.
	hmcshaida.ca /cossack.html (1098 words)

	HMS Sikh
		HMS Sikh started her naval life with the 1st Destroyer Flotilla (1st D. Her builders trials commenced in August 1938 and after being fitted with a gyro-compass and other equipment at Chatham, England she was completed on 2 November 1938 even though she had been commissioned a month earlier.
		HMS Sikh, HMS Cossack, HMS Maori and HMS Zulu left the Clyde River to escort another troop convoy through the Western Approaches.
		It was then decided that HMS Sikh and HMS Maori should return to Malta, to join HMS Zulu and form the 22nd D.F. This would act as a strike force against Axis supply convoys between Italy and North Africa.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G82 (1135 words)

	Shire of Roebourne -
		Cossack was first known as Tien Tsin, after the barque that carried Padbury and his party, however, in its early years it was referred to as "Port Walcott" and "North District".
		It was not until December 1871 after a visit by Governor Weld in HMS Cossack that the towns name was finally chosen.
		As the first port in the North West, Cossack played a vital role as the port for Roebourne and the surrounding areas bringing supplies for the new region and budding pastoral industry that was developing were shipped to Cossack.
	www.roebourne.wa.gov.au /CossackArtAwards/cossack_history.htm (632 words)

	C Class Destroyers
		HMS Cavalier is the last example of the classic British wartime destroyer and is now preserved as a memorial to all who lost their lives in destroyers throughout World War Two.
		HMS Cavalier was built by Samuel White at Cowes on the Isle of Wight and served the early part of her career in the bitter cold of the Arctic protecting the vital convoys to and from Russia.
		HMS Cavalier is the last of the British Wartime destroyers and is a fitting tribute to those men who gave their lives to protect their country.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /c_class.htm (1833 words)

	HMS LIVELY
		HMS Lively was dispatched to assist the Free French mine laying submarine, which had been damaged off Obrestad in Norway, and, unable to dive, was making her way back on the surface at 10 knots.
		HMS Lively was narrowly missed by a torpedo which passed astern of her and Libeccio was slightly damaged by the return fire.
		HMS Lively was damaged by fire from the Littorio, this damaged a bulkhead and resulted in her speed being reduced to 20 Knots.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /HMSLivelyBook/HMS_LIVELY_BOOK.htm (8193 words)

	Cossack
		Cossack has experienced a somewhat chequered past to bring it to its present state of today.
		Cossacks fortune changed in the 1890’s when the silting of the harbour along with the growing need for an increase in the size of ships servicing the flourishing pastoral industry made the Harbour impractical.
		The WA Museum and University of Western Australia are conducting ongoing archaeology at Cossack.
	www.roebourne.wa.edu.au /tour/cossack.htm (360 words)

	Memorabilia Photos (1)
		HMS Cossack served as the actual model for the one dollar stamp.
		However, a photograph of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cossack was chosen by the stamp artist.
		Finally, on 11 November 1941 the Cossack was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic with heavy loss of her crew.
	www.jproc.ca /iroquois/memorabilia1.html (758 words)

	HMS MAORI
		She joined HMS COSSACK'S division in January 1939 and was the last Tribal to go to war in the Mediterranean.
		On 30th November, MAORI and HMS INGLEFIELD were on one of these patrols when they were ordered to help the submarine HMS TRIAD which was in difficulty off the coast of Norway.
		It was decided to invoke the "Right of Angary", an ancient international law which in essence, permitted the property of neutral states to be seized and destroyed if it was deemed that the property would be employed as a weapon of war by a belligerent.
	hmcshaida.ca /maori.html (1296 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Sink HMS Cossack
		In this action-packed, fictionalised account of HMS Cossack, the reader is drawn into the drama of the famous ship's last days as Hitler orders its destruction.
		HMS Cossack, the most famous destroyer of World War II, played a decisive role in the freeing of British prisoners in 1940, fought in the second Battle of Narvik in that year and, finally, as an act of revenge on the part of the Germans was sunk in 1941.
		In an action-packed fictionalised version of the wartime history of Cossack, the doyen of naval fiction, Duncan Harding, retells the history of that great ship which even today is honoured in the 500-year annals of the British Royal Navy.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0727871587 (276 words)

	Cossack - Webled.com
		[ Cossack was stricken from the Navy List on 27 March 1919 and on 22 ]...
		[ Cossack had lost her position as the most important port in the ]...
		Cossacks were a sub-ethnic group of Russians who ]...
	www.webled.com /Cossack.htm (498 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - HMS Cossack (G 03) (Destroyer)
		On 16 Feb, 1940, HMS Cossack (F 03) entered a Norwegian fjord (Norway was then neutral) and seized the German supplyship Altmark, which had delivered supplies to the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and was returning to Germany with 303 prisoners.
		Captain Vian on HMS Cossack (F 03) then sent a radio message to the Admiralty, that he is waiting for order.
		In fact, HMS Cossack (G 03) (Capt E.L. Berthon, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN) was struck by one torpedo forward of the bridge, when she was at the rear of the convoy.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/1180.html (440 words)

	HMS Cossack, RN Destroyer
		HMS Cossack in naval art prints by Ivan Berryman depicting HMS Cossack at Grand Harbour Malta.
		HMS Cossack on convoy duty by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Cossack, one of the fast Tribal class destroyers will always be remembered for the daring rescue of 300 prisoners of war from the German Altmark in Norwegian waters.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_cossack.htm (674 words)

	Subway Scuba Diving School Malta, Scuba Diving Holidays, Dive Malta, Scuba Diver Training, Malta Diving Holidays, Dive ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The HMS Maori is in St Elmo Bay (Fort St. Elmo - Valletta), in front of a cafe which has its outside walls covered with a number of painted Destroyers, amongst which is the HMS Maori.
		HMS Maori was launched in 1937, and saw considerable action in the Mediterranean, the Norwegian campaign, Atlantic convoys and the North Sea.
		HMS MAORI was ordered on the 10th March 1936 at the Fairfield Shipbuilding Co, Govan.
	www.subwayscuba.com /maori.html (566 words)

	HMS COSSACK - Find Friends from HMS COSSACK at Forces Reunited
		Fred Barton was at HMS Cossack between 1947 and 1954
		Ivan Clayton was at HMS Cossack between 1948 and 1960
		Frank Heenan was at HMS Cossack between 1958 and 1960
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Cossack.html (280 words)

	Tribal Class Destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		HMS Cossack Built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 8th June 1937 at the outbreak of War the Cossack served in Home waters and also in the Mediterranean.
		HMS Bedouin sustained gunfire damaged and was eventually sunk by an aircraft.
		Was HMS Ashanti involved in the towing of a merchant vessel the Empire Might to Dakar in march 1943.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /tribal_class.htm (2607 words)

	chartroom :: May Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Everyone held their breath as Cossack lined up the perfect torpedo run, expecting to hear a sharp CRACK and see two large holes appear in Lutzow's exposed underwater hull.
		For several seconds, the only sound was the clik-clik-click of the camera, then Cossack pulled away.
		HMS Cossack cuts a fine bow wave as it sails back to port for more torpedoes
	www.westernwarshipcombat.com /gallery/album48?page=10 (218 words)

	Malta Marine Foundation
		In January 1941, the HMS MAORI joined HMS COSSACK, HMS SIKH and HMS ZULU, in convoy escort duty in the Western Approaches.
		The HMS MAORI was one of the ships to recover the survivors from the German battleship.
		Force “K” was decimated in a mine field off Tripoli, it was therefore decided that the HMS MAORI would be based in Malta with HMS SIKH and ZULU (22 destroyer flotilla) acting as a surface striking force, and would provide support for convoys leaving and entering Malta.
	www.marinefoundation.org /wreckshmsmaori.htm (480 words)

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		I seem to recall a rather murky shot of Cossack with her bow knocked off in the second battle of Narvik (April, 1940), in which she appeared to have a mid-grey hull and somewhat lighter grey upperworks.
		Subject: Re: HMS Cossack The photo of the tribal "with her bow knocked off" is actually of Eskimo after the second battle of Narvik.
		Cossack in February 1940 appears to have been painted in overall dark grey AP507A, with the same colour used on the decks not covered with corticene (which has a milk chocolate colour).
	smmlonline.com /archives/VOL0601.txt (2361 words)

	The HMS Cossack Association - Picture Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The municipality of Sokndal greets the 2001 reunion of the HMS Cossack Association with hopes that the arrangement will be successful.
		We hope that the connection between the HMS Cossack Association and the municipality of Sokndal can be maintained in the years to come.
		As the COSSACK was still afloat she was reboarded, the fires were put out and bulkheads were shored up.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /hmscossack/gallery.htm (1544 words)

	HMS Cossack RC Warship
		H.M.S. The re-armament race of the 1930's led to the major powers beginning construction of destroyers up to 2,000 tons.
		H.M.S. This model is constructed with a plated glass fibre hull, with all portholes and intakes moulded into the hull.
		To assist in the location of the running gear, the propshaft and rudder exits are marked on the hull.
	www.rchobby.co.uk /hms_cossack_rc_warship.htm (347 words)

	Cossack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		"The Navy is here!" Such was the historic greeting given to 300 British merchant seaman present in the German supply ship Altmark when a naval party from the destroyer HMS Cossack boarded the Altmark in Norway on the night of 16th February 1940 in World War 2.
		She was intercepted by the Cossack and took shelter in the fiord.
		The Cossack followed her in and, by superb seamanship in the narrow icy waters, her commander - Captain Vian - ran the Cossack alongside and boarded the German ship.
	www.dandare.org /eagle/cutaways/cossack.htm (151 words)

	Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth Cathedral (HMS Cossack)
		Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth Cathedral (HMS Cossack)
		In October 1941 Cossack was one of the escorts for a convoy from Gibraltar to the U.K. when, on the night of the 21st she was struck by a torpedo from a German U-boat.
		The explosion just forward of her bridge blew off her bows and about a third of the forward section of the ship killing 159 officers and ratings.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /churches/cathedral/cossack.htm (166 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: I was there! Where? The autobiography of crewman Alec Kelloway
		It was not long before I was drafted to HMS Skate, a WW1 destroyer being refitted at Hull.
		In fact my time on operational boiler work was about two - three weeks as a stoker in HMS Cossack in 1940.
		Each boiler had its own funnel, this was a different layout to the Cossack which had three separate boiler rooms with two funnels.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/kellaway/chapter6.html (3753 words)

	RC Boat HMS Hardy
		H.M.S. The original idea for Frigate design after World War 11 was that they should be of a single hull design that could be fitted out for various purposes.
		H.M.S. A lightweight glassfibre hull is the base for this model and to ease construction the break of the fo/castle is a separate moulding.
		Decks and all superstructure are constructed from printed plastic sheets, and to finish the model a complete set of fittings in cast light alloy and cast plastic are included.
	www.rchobby.co.uk /Productpage/rc_boat_hms_hardy.htm (325 words)

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