HMS Cochrane
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Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Cochrane, after Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
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was a Duke of Edinburgh class
armoured cruiser launched in 1905. She was stranded in 1918 and broken up.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Cochrane, after Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM , styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician....
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was a Duke of Edinburgh class
Duke of Edinburgh class cruiser
The Duke of Edinburgh-class was a class of six armoured cruisers built around 1905 for the British Royal Navy. The later four ships were armed differently, and are sometimes considered as a separate class, the Warrior-class....
armoured cruiser launched in 1905. She was stranded in 1918 and broken up.
- HMS Cochrane was a depot shipDepot shipA depot ship is a ship which acts as a mobile or fixed base for other ships and submarines or supports a naval base. Depot ships may be specifically designed for their purpose or be converted from another purpose...
, formerly an armed merchant cruiser, commissioned in 1914 and purchased in 1915 as . She was renamed HMS Cochrane in 1938 and was broken up in 1946. was the RosythRosythRosyth is a town located on the Firth of Forth, three miles south of the centre of Dunfermline. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the town has a population of 12,790....
naval base commissioned in 1938. It was paid off in 1947 but restored in 1948, taking over from HMS Lochinvar. The base closed in 1962, was recommissioned in 1968 and was finally closed in 1996. A number of satellite establishments also bore the name:- HMS Cochrane I was the Rosyth base between 1940 and 1945.
- HMS Cochrane II was the Rosyth supply and accounting base for tenders between 1940 and 1945.
- HMS Cochrane II was the naval barracks at DonibristleDonibristleDonibristle was a house and estate in Fife, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth. Only the wings of the house remain, within the modern settlement of Dalgety Bay: they are now protected as a category A listed building...
between 1962 and 1963. - HMS Cochrane III was the Primrose Camp training centre and later accommodation establishment between 1942 and 1946.
- HMS Cochrane V was the ledger for personnel involved in Operation Apostle (the return to Norway) in 1945.