Allied Warships

HMS Kos XIX

ASW Whaler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Whaler
Class 
Pennant 
Built byFramnæs mekaniske Værksted (Sandefjord, Norway) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned 1940 
Lost3 Jun 1942 
Loss position32.06N, 24.12E (See a map)
 
History

Completed in September 1936.
Norwegian whaler of Hvalfangerselskap Kosmos A/S (Anders Jahre), Sandefjord, Norway taken over by the Admiralty in 1940.
Displacement: 307 tons.

Kos XIX was renamed Cocker in September 1941.

HMS Cocker (T/Lt. D.H. Crampton, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk east of Tobruk in position 32º06'N, 24º12'E by the German motor torpedo boat S 57.

 

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