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  hms cossack (f03) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
HMS ''Cossack (L-03/F-03/G-03) was a Tribal-class destroyer which became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee''.
Cossack was 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 sank in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar on 27 October 1941.
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 The Wartime Memories Project - HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack F03 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class.
HMS Cossack was lost on the 24th October 1941 having left Gibraltar escorting a convoy to England.
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.
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 HMS Cossack (F03) Information
HMS Cossack (L03/F03/G03) was a Tribal-class destroyer which became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee.
The force consisted of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, light cruiser Edinburgh, and destroyers Electra, Echo, Escapade, and Cossack.
On 24 October 1941, Cossack was escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom when she was struck by one torpedo fired by the German submarine U-563.
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 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 bow coming alongside the jetty.
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.
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 Paxman History Pages - Paxman and the Royal Navy
HMS Prince of Wales lost in action in December 1941.
The only one of her type built, HMS Bristol was commissioned in 1973 and withdrawn from service in 1991.
HMS Invincible was 'mothballed' in 2005, pending the construction of two new carriers for the Navy.
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 The HMS Cossack Association
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the proud name 'Cossack'.
This association is dedicated to those who served in the last two, both Destroyers, and both built by Vickers, which saw service between 1937 and 1941, and 1945 and 1959 respectively.
The HMS Cossack Association is a non-profit making organisation.
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 Ashanti.ƒAƒVƒƒƒ“ƒeƒB.‹ß‘㐢ŠEŠÍ‘DŽ—“TThe Encyclopedia of World ,Modern Warships.
By 16th October, the new British battleship HMS King George V was nearing completion at the Vickers-Armstrong yard on the Tyne river.
HMS MAORI also came too close to shallow water and sheared off her ASDIC dome.
While berthing along HMS RENOWN, the destroyer chipped one of her propellers on the battlecruiserfs bilge keel.
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 HMS Cossack | THG Lexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Die erste HMS Cossack war eine Sloop oder Brigg mit 22 Kanonen, die 1806 vom Stapel lief, sich 1808 bei einem Angriff auf Santander auszeichnete und 1816 abgewrackt wurde.
Die zweite HMS Cossack war ein Kanonenboot, das 1848 in Auftrag gegeben, aber nicht fertiggestellt wurde.
Die vierte HMS Cossack war ein Kreuzer dritter Klasse, der 1886 vom Stapel lief, vor allem in Ostafrika stationiert war und 1905 zum Abwracken verkauft wurde.
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 HMS Cairo, HMS Nubian, HMS Auckland
Page 4 of Admiralty report, H.M.S. Nubian No. 5/16 of 23 April 1940, confirms that my grandfather and his crew were taken aboard this Flotilla Class Destroyer during the course of the evening, Sunday 21 April 1940 and returned to Scapa Flow on Tuesday, 23 April 1940.
Commissioned with a Portsmouth crew on the 19th November 1938, Auckland worked up at Portland and sailed for her first assignment on 4th January 1939, arriving at Simonstown on the 17th February and cruised on the eastern coast of southern Africa during that summer.
On the 8th April 1941 Auckland arrived at Alexandria and transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet being based at Alexandria and covering convoys and operations along the Libyan coast until sunk by air attack off Tobruk on the 24th June 1941.
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 HMS Cossack (F03) | THG Lexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
HMS Cossack (F03) war ein Zerstörer der Tribal-Klasse der britischen Royal Navy.
April 1940, gehörte HMS Cossack zu dem britischen Verband, der unter Führung des Schlachtschiffs HMS Warspite in den Ofotfjord bis nach Narvik eindrang und dort im zweiten Seegefecht von Narvik die verbliebenen acht deutschen Zerstörer versenkte bzw.
Fünf Zerstörer, darunter HMS Cossack, wurden am 26.
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 Battle of the River Plate - meaning of word
A second County class cruiser, HMS Cumberland (C57) (10,000 tons, eight 8-inch (203 mm) guns) was self-refitting in the Falkland Islands at the time, though available at short notice.
British efforts were made to feed false Military espionage to the Germans that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) and the battlecruiser HMS Renown (1916), when in fact only the heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland (C57) was nearby.
Prisoners taken from merchant ships by ''Admiral Graf Spee'' who had been transferred to her supply ship ''Altmark'' were freed by a boarding party from the British destroyer HMS Cossack (F03), called the Altmark Incident (February 16, 1940) — whilst in Jøssingfjord, in then neutral Norway waters.
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