HMS Cossack (R57)

	300px 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:	4 × QF 4.5 in (114 mm) L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V; 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV; 4 × anti-aircraft mountings;; Single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III; Single QF 2 - pdr Mk.VIII Mk.XVI; Single Oerlikon 20 mm P Mk.III; Twin Oerlikon 20 mm Mk.V; ; 8 (2x4) tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX; 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges;

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]

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History
300px HMS Cossack in 1945
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:	4 × QF 4.5 in (114 mm) L/45 guns Mark IV on mounts CP Mk.V 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV 4 × anti-aircraft mountings; Single Bofors 40 mm Mk.III Single QF 2 - pdr Mk.VIII Mk.XVI Single Oerlikon 20 mm P Mk.III Twin Oerlikon 20 mm Mk.V 8 (2x4) tubes for 21-inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX 4 throwers and 2 racks for 96 depth charges