HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 Banterer-class

Banterer class post ship

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 post ship

Post ship

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 of a nominal 22 guns, launched in 1806 at South Shields

South Shields

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, England

England

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. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Pandour and launched under that name but her name was altered to Cossack during 1806.

She was rated as a 22-gun ship and was intended to mount that number of long 9-pounders on her main deck. However she also carried eight 24-pounder carronades and two long 6-pounders on her quarter-deck and forecastle. By the time that Captain George Digby commissioned her in early 1807, the Admiralty added two brass howitzers to her armament, while exchanging her 9-pounders for 32-pounder carronades. Her complement was increased by twenty to 175 officers, men and boys. She served throughout the Napoleonic War and was broken up at Portsmouth in June 1816.

Service

Cossack appears to have seen little action. She was at the Battle of Copenhagen

Battle of Copenhagen (1807)

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 in 1807.

In June 1808 Cossack and Comet went to St Andero

Santander, Cantabria

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 to assist Spanish loyalists and bring off any British subjects. On 21 June boats from Cossack and Comet landed seamen and Royal Marines

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 who spiked the guns of Fort St Salvador de Ano and Fort Sedra, near the town of St. Andero, to prevent them falling into French hands.

Later, in August or September, Cossack captured the schooner Mouche in the Channel.

In November 1810 Captain Thomas Garth

Thomas Garth (Royal Navy)

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 replaced Digby. His replacement, in April 1811, was Captain Thomas Searle. In February 1812 Captain William King took command until replaced in February 1813 by Captain Francis Stanfell. Under Stanfell Cossack escorted a convoy to Jamaica and then served on the North America station where she was damaged in a storm.

In March 1814 Captain Edward Silby replaced Stanfell, and four months later Captain James Wemyss replaced Silby. One month later, in August, Captain Robert Rodney took command. Cossacks last commander was Captain Lord Algernon Percy

Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland

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, who took command in August 1815. Under Percy, Cossack served on the North American station.