HMS_Vittoria_(1917)

HMS <i>Vittoria</i> (1917)

HMS Vittoria (1917)

Destroyer of the Royal Navy


HMS Vittoria was a British destroyer of the Admiralty V-class. She was converted to a minelayer, and was torpedoed by the Bolshevik submarine Pantera off the island of Seiskari in the Gulf of Finland on 31 August 1919.

Quick Facts History, United Kingdom ...

The sunken destroyer was given to the state of Finland on 12 December 1919 together with her sister ship Verulam; however, when salvaging began in 1925, it was found that both ships were broken in two and impossible to repair.

In November 2013, Russian divers rediscovered the wreck at a depth of 30 meters (98 feet), at a location inside what is now Russian territorial waters.[1]


References

  1. Lenta.ru (11 November 2013). "British 'Vittoria' Destroyer sunk by Russians found in the Gulf of Finland". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 23 April 2024.

Bibliography

60°5′N 28°23′E



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article HMS_Vittoria_(1917), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.