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Wednesday 5 December 2018

British destroyer HMS Cossack executing trials according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1907 No. 11

An item reported that the British ocean going destroyer HMS Cossack fitted out with turbine machinery and 3 screws achieved during a trial off Liverpool a speed of nearly 33,5 knots.(1)

Note
1. Of the Tribal-class, preceded by the River-class and succeeded by the Beagle of G-class, laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 13 November 1905, launched on 16 February 1907, commissioned in April 1908 and sold to be broken up in December 1919. In fact was trial speed even better with 34,619 knots.