HMS Cossack (1907)
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Name | HMS Cossack |
Builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Laid down | 13 November 1905 |
Launched | 16 February 1907 |
Commissioned | April 1908 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, December 1919 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Tribal-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h) |
Range | 1,325 nmi (2,454 km; 1,525 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 72 |
Armament |
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HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
Construction and design
HMS Cossack was one of five Tribal-class destroyers ordered as part of the 1905–06 shipbuilding programme.
Cossack was laid down on 13 November 1905 and launched on 16 February 1907.[6] After successfully undergoing trials[7] where she reached a speed of 34.619 knots (64.114 km/h; 39.839 mph),[2] Cossack was commissioned in April 1908.[6]
Service
Shortly after Cossack entered service, it was decided to strengthen the armament of the first batch of Tribals by adding another two 12 pounder guns, this being done in 1909.
In 1909, following a re-organisation of the Royal Navy's
During the
On 23 August 1914, Cossack was involved in a collision with her sister Tribal-class destroyer, Ghurka.[15] In October 1914, Cossack was one of a number of warships of the Dover Patrol that were deployed to help support Belgian ground forces during the Battle of the Yser, with all available ships being used to carry out shore bombardment operations. At one stage, on 20 October 1914, after the destroyer Amazon was damaged by German shellfire, Rear Admiral Horace Hood transferred his flag to Cossack.[16][17]
On the night of 26/27 October 1916, German
On 1 July 1917, Cossack collided with the transport SS The Duchess near Eastbourne. Cossack's depth charges exploded as a result of the collision, sinking The Duchess and blowing off Cossack's stern.[9][19][20] Cossack was towed to Dover for repair.[21]
On 16 September 1918, a fire started in one of the magazines of the newly delivered
Cossack was sold to the shipbreakers Thos. W. Ward on 12 December 1919 for scrapping at their Preston, Lancashire, works.[6][25]
Pennant numbers
Pennant number[25] | Date |
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H09 | 1914 |
D02 | September 1915 |
D19 | January 1918 |
Notes
- ^ cwt stands for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
- ^ A general problem with the seakeeping of the Tribals was that their forecastle was too short, so that at high speed, the ship's bow wave would wash over the deck.[9]
Citations
- ^ Friedman 2009, p. 293
- ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 108
- ^ Friedman 2009, pp. 106–108
- ^ a b c Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 72.
- ^ a b Friedman 2009, p. 100
- ^ a b c Friedman 2009, p. 305
- ^ "Progress of Warships and Machinery Under Construction in England" (PDF). The Engineer. Vol. 105. 10 January 1908. p. 29.
- ^ a b Friedman 2009, pp. 109–110
- ^ a b Burt 1986, p. 22
- ^ "The Home and Atlantic Fleets". The Times. No. 38907. 15 March 1909. p. 9.
- ^ a b "NMM, vessel ID 382853" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol v. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ Manning 1961, p. 25
- ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Flotillas of the First Fleet". The Navy List. January 1914. p. 269a. Retrieved 16 May 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad: Patrol Flotillas". The Navy List. February 1914. p. 269d. Retrieved 16 May 2020 – via National Library of Scotland.
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur (2013). "Ships hit during WWI: HMS Ghurka". u-boat.net. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ Corbett, Julian S. (2013) [Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co.: London, 1920]. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations Vol. I To the Battle of the Falklands December 1914 (Part 1 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ Bacon 1918, pp. 611–614
- ^ Newbolt, Henry (2013) [Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co.: London, 1928]. "History of the Great War: Naval Operations Vol. IV June 1916 to April 1917 (Part 1 of 2)". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ^ "SS The Duchess [+1917]". www.wrecksite.eu. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013..
- ^ Everest, Ian (24 November 2007). "The War Dead. Part II: Newhaven 1917". Our Newhaven. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ Bacon 1918, p. 620
- ^ a b Gardiner & Gray 1985, p. 47
- ^ Brook 1999, p. 212
- ^ Kemp 1999, p. 79
- ^ a b Dittmar & Colledge 1972, pp. 60–61
Bibliography
- Bacon, Reginald (1918). The Dover Patrol 1915–1917. Vol. II. London: Hutchinson & Son.
- Brook, Peter (1999). Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. Gravesend, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-89-4.
- Burt, R.A. (1986). Warships Illustrated No 7: British Destroyers in World War One. London: Arms & Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-753-6.
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J. J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. Shepperton, UK: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7.
- ISBN 978-1-84832-049-9.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Kemp, Paul (1999). The Admiralty Regrets British Warship Losses of the 20th Century. Sutton Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7509-1567-6.
- Manning, T. D. (1961). The British Destroyer. London: Putnam & Co. OCLC 6470051.
- March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC 164893555.
External links
- HMS Cossack Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels