HMS Cossack (1907)
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HMS Cossack
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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 |
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| Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) |
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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 |
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HMS Cossack was a Tribal class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
HMS Cossack was one of five Tribal-class destroyers ordered as part of the 1905–06 shipbuilding programme. While the Admiralty laid down the basic requirements of an oil-fuelled, steam turbine-powered ship with a speed of 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph), a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at cruising speed and an endurance of eight hours at full speed, the details of the design of individual ships was left to the builders, which meant that individual ships of the class differed significantly from each other. Cammell Laird's design was powered by steam turbines rated at 14,000 shaft horsepower (10,000 kW) fed by five boilers to drive three propeller shafts, and had three large funnels. Armament was the specified three 12 pounder (3 inch, 76 mm) 12 cwt guns, two side by side on the ship's forecastle and one aft, with two 18 in (450 mm) torpedo tubes.
Cossack was laid down on 13 November 1905 and launched on 16 February 1907. After successfully undergoing trials where she reached a speed of 34.619 knots (64.114 km/h; 39.839 mph),Cossack was commissioned in April 1908.
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.Cossack was considered by her Captain to be a poorer sea boat than River-class destroyers, but a better gun platform.
In 1910, Cossack formed part of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, By 1913, she had joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, based at Portsmouth. In October that year, the Tribals were officially designated the F class, and as such the letter "F" was painted on Cossack's bows.
During the First World War she served in the North Sea and the English Channel with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla.
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