Walter Cowan - Tribute

Tribute

In 2007 the Estonian Navy named a British-made minehunter of the Sandown class the Admiral Cowan.

Memorials to the 110 men of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force killed in the Baltic action of 1919 are now in the Estonian capital Tallinn, the Latvian capital Riga and Portsmouth cathedral.

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