Cossack 1938

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Name:	COSSACK
Type:	Destroyer
Keel:	14/06/1936
Launched:	08/06/1937
Completed:	10/06/1938
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard:	High Walker
Yard Number:	7
Dimensions:	1960disp - 2520disp, 355.5 x 36.5 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines:	2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 44000shp
Engines by:	Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, Barrow
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	4 x 2 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns;
	1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; 1 x depth charge rack & 2 x throwers
History:
07/06/1938	British Royal Navy
27/10/1941	Sank

Comments:	A member of the TRIBAL Class of destroyers. Cost £341,082
	16/02/1940: Instrumental in the ALTMARK Incident, freeing 299 British prisoners of war
	23/10/1941: Torpedoed by U-Boat U563 when escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the UK
	27/10/1941: Taken in tow but foundered in bad weather 200 miles west of Gibraltar
	159 crew died

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