HMS Cossack (R57)


HMS Cossack in 1945
Career (UK)
Class and type: C-class destroyer
Name: HMS Cossack
Builder: Vickers-Armstrong
Launched: 10 May 1944
Identification: Pennant number: R57
Fate: Scrapped on 1 March 1961
General characteristics
Class and 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 (29.8 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] She saw action at the Battle of Pusan Perimeter during the Korean War.[2] On 18 May 1951, Cossack intercepted 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]

The ship was scrapped in 1961.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "The C Class". battleships-cruisers. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/c_class.htm. 
  2. ^ Marolda, p. 20
  3. ^ "Rubber Cargo Seized" The Times (London). Saturday, 19 May 1951. Issue 52005, col C, p. 6.
  4. ^ "International: What the Embargo Means". Time (Monday, 28 May 1951). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,890055,00.html. 
  5. ^ "The Nancy Moller at Singapore" The Times (London). Thursday, 24 May 1951. Issue 52009, col A, p. 4.

Bibliography

  • Marolda, Edward (2007), The US Navy in the Korean War, Naval Institute Press, ISBN 978-1591144878