HMS Cossack
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Six ships of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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 have borne the name HMS Cossack, after the Cossack people of Eastern Europe
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, whilst another was begun but was cancelled while building:
  • HMS Cossack
    HMS Cossack (1806)
    HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy Banterer-class post ship of a nominal 22 guns, launched in 1806 at South Shields, England. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Pandour and launched under that name but her name was altered to Cossack during 1806....

     was a 22-gun sixth-rate post-ship, begun under the name Pandour in 1805, but renamed before being launched in 1806. She was broken up in 1816.
  • HMS Cossack was to have been a steam gunvessel, laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1846, but cancelled in May 1849.
  • HMS Cossack
    HMS Cossack (1854)
    HMS Cossack was a wooden 20-gun corvette, built at Northfleet and launched on 15 May 1854. She was originally laid down for the Imperial Russian Navy as the corvette Witjas, however was confiscated during the Crimean War in 1854....

     was ordered as the Russian ship Witjas, a wood screw corvette building on the Thames at Northfleet which was seized by Britain while under construction in 1854 and sold in 1875.
  • HMS Cossack was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
  • HMS Cossack
    HMS Cossack (1907)
    HMS Cossack was a Tribal class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla....

     was a Tribal-class
    Tribal class destroyer (1905)
    The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World War I, where they saw action in the North Sea and English Channel as part of the 6th Flotilla and Dover Patrols.-Design:The preceding River or E...

     destroyer
    Destroyer
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     launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
  • HMS Cossack
    HMS Cossack (F03)
    HMS Cossack 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....

     was a Tribal-class
    Tribal class destroyer (1936)
    The Tribal class, or Afridi class, were a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy that saw service in World War II...

     destroyer launched in 1937 and sunk four days after being torpedoed by the German submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

     U-563 in 1941, when attempts to tow her to safety failed.
  • HMS Cossack
    HMS Cossack (R57)
    HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy C-class destroyer launched on 10 May 1944.She saw action at the Battle of Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War. On 18 May 1951, Cossack intercepted off Hainan, China. The ship was carrying a cargo of rubber bound for a Chinese port in contravention of a United Nations...

     was a C-class
    C class destroyer (1943)
    The C class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the Ca, Ch, Co and Cr classes, ordered as the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Emergency Flotillas respectively...

     destroyer launched in 1944 and broken up in 1961.

See also

  • USS Cossack
    USS Cossack
    USS Cossack has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:, part of the Stone Fleet during the American Civil War., a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919...

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