H.M.S. Cossack (1937)

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H.M.S. Cossack (1937)
Pendant Number: F03[1]
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Tyne[2]
Laid down: 9 Jun, 1936[3]
Launched: 8 Jun, 1937[4]
Commissioned: 7 Jun, 1938[5]
Torpedoed: 24 Oct, 1941[6]
Fate: by U.563

H.M.S. Cossack was one of twenty-seven Tribal Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Torpedoed on 23 October 1941 while escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to Britain. She sank four days later on 27 October. 159 men were lost, including her captain, Edward Lyon Berthon.

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  3. Wikipedia.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  5. Wikipedia.
  6. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 40.
  7. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. Vian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/158. f. 160.
  12. Vian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/158. f. 160.
  13. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  14. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  15. Vian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/158. f. 160.
  16. Vian Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/158. f. 160.
  17. Berthon Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/93/46. f. ?.
  18. Uboat.net page on the ship.


Tribal Class Destroyer
British Destroyers
Afridi Ashanti Bedouin Cossack Eskimo
Gurkha Maori Mashona Matabele Mohawk
  Nubian Punjabi Sikh  
  Somali Tartar Zulu  
Australian Destroyers
  Arunta Bataan Warramunga  
Canadian Destroyers
  Athabaskan Haida Huron Iroquois  
  Athabaskan Cayuga Micmac Nootka  
<– "G", "H" and "I" Class Destroyers (UK)