HMS Cossack (R57)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Cossack.
HMS Cossack in 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Cossack
Builder: Vickers-Armstrong
Launched: 10 May 1944
Identification: Pennant number: R57
Fate: Scrapped on 1 March 1961
General characteristics
Class & type: C-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,885 tons (1,915 tonnes)
  • 2,545 tons full (2,585 tonnes)
Length: 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a
Beam: 35.75 ft (10.90 m)
Draught: 11.75 ft (3.58 m)
Propulsion:
  • 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,
  • Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,
  • 40,000 shp (30 MW), 2 shafts
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h) / 32 knots (59 km/h) full
Range:
  • 4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
  • 1,400 nmi (2,600 km) at 32 knots (59 km/h)
Complement: 186
Sensors and
processing systems:
Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI
Armament:

HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy C-class destroyer launched on 10 May 1944.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3][4] Nancy Moller was escorted back to Singapore.[5]

In December 1959 she arrived back at Devonport Dockyard after 14 years service in the Far East.[6] The ship was scrapped in 1961.[1]

Commanding officers

[7]

FromToCaptain
19491950Captain Richard T White RN
19501952Captain Varyl Begg RN
19521953Captain Walter A Adair RN
19541955Captain Lionel W L Argles RN
19551956Captain Edmund T Larken RN

References

  1. 1 2 "C Class Destroyers". battleships-cruisers. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  2. Marolda, p. 20
  3. "Rubber Cargo Seized" The Times (London). Saturday, 19 May 1951. (52005), col C, p. 6.
  4. "International: What the Embargo Means". Time (Monday, 28 May 1951).
  5. "The Nancy Moller at Singapore" The Times (London). Thursday, 24 May 1951. (52009), col A, p. 4.
  6. Critchley, Mike (1982). British Warships Since 1945: Part 3: Destroyers. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Books. p. 100. ISBN 0-9506323-9-2.
  7. Royal Navy Senior Appointments, Colin Mackie

Publications


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