HMS Cossack (F03)

Cossack under way, 1938
History
United Kingdom
Name	Cossack
Namesake	Cossack
Ordered	10 March 1936
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, High Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
Cost	£341,082
Laid down	9 June 1936
Launched	8 June 1937
Completed	10 June 1938
Commissioned	14 June 1938
Identification	Pennant numbers: L03, F03 & G03
Fate	Sunk by U-563, 27 October 1941
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	1,891 long tons (1,921 t) (standard) 2,519 long tons (2,559 t) (deep load)
Length	377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught	11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Installed power	3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 44,000 shp (33,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Shafts 2 × Geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	190
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC
Armament	4 × Twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × Quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA guns 2 × Quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns 1 × Quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × Depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the Cossack people of the Eurasian steppe. She became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 on 23 October 1941, and sank four days later.