HMS Vittoria
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Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Vittoria | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | destroyer | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | War action | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Conflict | World War I | Wikidata P607 conflict |
| Sea / ocean | Gulf of Finland | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Russia | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 27 km from land |
| Position | 60.0833, 28.3833 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
HMS Vittoria was a British destroyer of the Admiralty V-class. She was converted to a minelayer.
During Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War it was torpedoed by the Bolshevik submarine Pantera off the island of Seiskari in the Gulf of Finland on 31 August 1919.
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.
Location
- Recorded position: 60.0833, 28.3833 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Gulf of Finland
- Nearest coast: Russia
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Vittoria (1917) (revision 1345237467), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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