I joined her in April 1940 and left in April 1941 On the 30th April 1940 I was told to get a medical - drop trousers and cough — then collect my belongings as I was drafted to HMS Cossack that ...

Originally a crew member on the German battleship Bismarck, Sam miraculously survived its sinking, only to endure two more shipwrecks aboard British naval ships, HMS Cossack and HMS Ark Royal.

In this extract from Nazi propaganda, Haw-Haw mocks Churchill's tribute to HMS Cossack, the British ship that rescued prisoners from a German vessel called the Altmark. Four Germans were killed in ...

and in the HMS Cossack Association newsletters. I was There! Where? Chapter 4 - H.M.S. Cossack Fleet Destroyer Launched: 1935 Commissioned: 1937 Lost at sea being hit by a torpedo from a German U ...