On this day in 1940, HMS Cossack, under the Command of Captain Vian, rescued 299 British Merchant Seaman from the German ship, Altmark. Victims of the Graf Spee they were being transported to Germany for imprisonment when the Royal Navy intervened in neutral Norway.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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