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Where Cossack's Altmark boarding party jumped

Haida's exterior provides a physical reference for the rail and deck area used by Cossack's boarding party during the Altmark incident.

Question

Can Haida show how HMS Cossack boarded Altmark?

Short answer

Yes. The comparable location is the rail area beside B turret, from which ropes and the first boarding party would have crossed.

Notes

Haida's side near B turret provides the comparable jumping-off point aboard HMS Cossack. Ropes were thrown across before the first boarding team crossed from the rail area. The location lay where the railings run beside B turret. Seeing that geometry on a surviving Tribal-class hull makes the celebrated 1940 boarding action easier to reconstruct.