A British war ship, named after the Cossack people of Russia and Ukraine, once arrived in Edinburgh's Leith Port with almost 300 freed prisoners of war.
HMS Cossack arrived at Leith Port on February 17, 1940, with 299 British prisoners who they had just liberated from a German supply ship, Altmark.
The Altmark was sailing home and skirting along the Norwegian coastline when she was sighted by an RAF squadron, who alerted the naval headquarters at Rosyth.
