1940's. THE ALTMARK INCIDENT- HMS Cossack arrives in Britain (Leith) with 300 British seamen released from the German Ship Altmark near the Jøssingfjord in Norway. The prisoners were survivors from various ships sunk by the Admiral Graf Spee). HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer that became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the freeing of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee. The Cossack was torpedoed by the German submarine U-563 on 23 October 1941, and sank four days later.

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