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HMS Cossack
Typ:
torpédoborec (třída Tribal)
Loděnice:
Vickers-Armstrong,High Walker Yard,
Newcastle upon Tyne
Kýl založen:
9. 6. 1936
Spuštěna na vodu:
8. 6. 1937
Převzata:
14. 6. 1938
Pennant Number:
L03,
F03 (I/1939-podzim 1940),
G03 (podzim 1940-X/1941)
Takticko-technická data:
Délka největší:
114,91 m
Šířka největší:
11,125 m
Výtlak standardní:
1959 tons
Výtlak maximální:
2519 tons
Výkon strojů:
44,000 hp (32 810 kW)
Rychlost maximální:
36 uzlů
HMS Cossack (Pennant Number L03, F03 & G03) was a Tribal-class destroyer which 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.
Cossack was laid down at the High Walker Yard of Vickers-Armstrongs at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937 by Mrs. S. V. Goodall, commissioned on 7 June 1938 and completed on 14 June 1938.
Cossack's first action was on 16 February 1940. This was the Altmark Incident in Jøssingfjord, Norway which resulted in the freeing of the Admiral Graf Spee's prisoners who were being held aboard the supply ship Altmark and the death of seven members of the crew of the Altmark. Cossack arrived at Leith on 17 February with the 299 freed prisoners.[2] The Norwegian Government subsequently protested at the Cossack's breach of Norways neutrality and demanded the return of the prisoners, with the German Government further protesting at the act of violence committed against the Altmark.[3]
Shortly afterwards Cossack participated in the Second Battle of Narvik in (April 1940). In late 1940, she was part of the force which was assigned to hunt for a German surface raider that had been reported as breaking out into the North Atlantic. The force consisted of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, light cruiser Edinburgh, and destroyers HMS Electra, Echo, Escapade, and Cossack. The report turned out to have been false, and after spending a week at sea, including Christmas Day, she returned to port on New Years Eve.
In May 1941, she participated in the pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. While escorting Convoy WS-8B to the Middle East, Cossack and 4 other destroyers broke off on 26 May, and headed towards the area where Bismarck had been reported. They found her that evening, and made several torpedo attacks in the evening and into the next morning. No hits were scored, but they kept her gunners from getting any sleep, making it easier for the battleships to attack her the next morning.
On 24 October 1941, Cossack was escorting a convoy from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom when she was struck by a single torpedo fired by the German submarine U-563 commanded by Klaus Bargsten. She was taken in tow by a tug from Gibraltar on 25 October, but the weather worsened and the tow was slipped on 26 October. Cossack sank in the Atlantic west of Gibraltar on 27 October 1941. 159 of her crew were lost.
HMS Cossack was named after the Cossack people who lived in the steppes of Ukraine and Southern Russia.
Takticko-technická data torpédoborce HMS Cossack | |
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Data označená (x) jsou rychlost a výkon strojů, které byly naměřeny při zkušebních plavbách; tyto byly naměřeny při výtlaku 2030 tons, tedy cca 2062 metrických tun | |
Hnací ústrojí tvořily dvě soustrojí přetlakových (reakčních) parních turbín (turbína Parsonsova). Výkon je přenášen z každého soustrojí na lodní vrtuli (lodní šroub) přes reduktor a hřídelové vedení. Páru dodávaly tři tříbubnové kotle s pracovním tlakem 300 psi (cca 21,09 kg.cm²).