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HMS Cossack
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cossack, after the Cossack people of Eastern Europe, whilst another was planned, but was cancelled:
- HMS Cossack was previously HMS Pandour, a 22-gun sixth rate frigate renamed and launched in 1806. She was broken up in 1816.
- HMS Cossack was to have been a steam gunvessel, laid down at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1846, but cancelled in 1849.
- HMS Cossack was previously the Russian ship Witjas, a wood screw corvette captured in 1854 and sold in 1875.
- HMS Cossack was a torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
- HMS Cossack was a Tribal class destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1919.
- HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1937 and sunk four days after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 in 1941, when attempts to tow her to safety failed.
- HMS Cossack was a C class destroyer launched in 1944 and broken up in 1961.
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