Name HMS Cossack Class and type C-class destroyer Draft 3.58 m | Identification Pennant number R57 Launched 10 May 1944 Builder Vickers-Armstrongs | |
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Fate Scrapped on 1 March 1961 Displacement 1,885 tons (1,915 tonnes)
2,545 tons full (2,585 tonnes) Length 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a | ||
HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy C-class destroyer launched on 10 May 1944.
Operational Service
Cossack became leader of the 8th Destroyer Squadron and during that time saw action at the Battle of Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War. On 18 May 1951, Cossack intercepted the cargo ship Nancy Moller off Hainan, China. The ship was carrying a cargo of rubber bound for a Chinese port in contravention of a United Nations embargo. Nancy Moller was escorted back to Singapore.
In December 1959 she arrived back at Devonport Dockyard after 14 years service in the Far East. The ship was scrapped in 1961.
References
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