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USS Cossack (SP-695)

Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The second USS Cossack (SP-695) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.

Editorial summary

“USS Cossack (SP-695)” enters the record as patrol vessel of the United States Navy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cossack, SP-695 and Patrol can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1919—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cossack, SP-695 and Patrol.
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Why this record matters

“USS Cossack (SP-695)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cossack, SP-695 and Patrol provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1917 and 1919.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “USS Cossack (SP-695)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.