HMS Cossack

HMS Cossack

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Cossack", after the Cossack people of Eastern Europe, whilst another was planned, but was cancelled:

*HMS "Cossack" was previously HMS "Pandour", a 22-gun sixth rate frigate renamed and 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 1849.
*HMS "Cossack" was previously the Russian ship "Witjas", a wood screw corvette captured in 1854 and sold in 1875.
*HMS "Cossack" was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
*HMS "Cossack" was a Tribal class destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
*HMS "Cossack" was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1937 and sunk four days after being torpedoed by the German submarine "U-563" in 1941, when attempts to tow her to safety failed.
*HMS "Cossack" was a C class destroyer launched in 1944 and broken up in 1961.


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