HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the Cossack people of the Eurasian steppe. She 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. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 on 23 October 1941, and sank four days later.
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Foto: Wikimedia Commons — Royal Navy official photographer, George Pechell Mends, Unidentified engraver / After James Wilson Carmichael (proste licence / javna domena)
