Did HMS Cossack's boarders use cutlasses at Altmark?

Did HMS Cossack's sailors use cutlasses during the Altmark boarding?

Probably not as their main weapons; the destroyer crew likely favored pistols, Tommy guns, bayonets, and knives, while some cruiser reservists were more attached to cutlasses.

The answer revisits whether Royal Navy sailors used cutlasses during HMS Cossack's boarding in the Altmark incident. The destroyer's boarding party probably relied more on pistols, Tommy guns, bayonets, and knives than on cutlasses. Some cruiser crews, especially activated reservists, remained more enthusiastic about traditional boarding blades. Cutlasses and boarding pikes also survived in naval armouries, even where their normal role had become ceremonial. The evidence separates a weapon's persistence in service culture from proof that a particular boarding party carried it in combat.