HMS Vittoria (1917)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Vittoria.

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Vittoria
Namesake	Battle of Vitoria
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear
Launched	29 October 1917
Fate	Torpedoed in the Gulf of Finland, 31 August 1919
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty V-class destroyer
Displacement	1,272–1,339 long tons (1,292–1,360 t)
Length	300 ft (91.4 m) o/a, 312 ft (95.1 m) p/p
Beam	26 ft 9 in (8.2 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m) (standard), 11 ft 2 in (3.4 m) (deep)
Installed power	27,000  shp (20,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Brown-Curtiss steam turbines 3 × Yarrow-type water-tube boilers 2 × shafts
Speed	34  kn (39 mph; 63 km/h)
Range	3,500  nmi (4,000 mi; 6,500 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h), 900 nmi (1,000 mi; 1,700 km) at 32 kn (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Capacity	320–370 long tons (325–376 t) fuel oil
Complement	110
Armament	4 × QF 4 in Mk V (102mm L/45), 2 × QF 2-pdr Mk.II "pom-pom" (40 mm L/39) or; 1 × QF 12-pdr 20 cwt, 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2x2)

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. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

References

1. А. Рункин. Подвиг "Пантеры". 31 августа 1919 года подводная лодка "Пантера" потопила эсминец интервентов "Виттория". Так был открыт боевой счёт советских подводников // газета «Красная звезда» от 29 августа 1979. стр.4
2. Lenta.ru (11 November 2013). "British 'Vittoria' Destroyer sunk by Russians found in the Gulf of Finland". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 23 April 2024.

Bibliography

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8.
• Cocker, Maurice (1981). Destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1893–1981. Ian Allan. ISBN   0-7110-1075-7.
• Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN   978-1-59114-081-8.
• Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN   0-85177-245-5.
• March, Edgar J. (1966). British Destroyers: A History of Development, 1892–1953; Drawn by Admiralty Permission From Official Records & Returns, Ships' Covers & Building Plans. London: Seeley Service. OCLC   164893555.
• Preston, Antony (1971). 'V & W' Class Destroyers 1917–1945. London: Macdonald. OCLC   464542895.
• Raven, Alan & Roberts, John (1979). 'V' and 'W' Class Destroyers. Man o'War. Vol. 2. London: Arms & Armour. ISBN   0-85368-233-X.

External links

• Photograph of HMS Vittoria, circa 1918
• Затопленный российской подлодкой британский эсминец нашли на дне Финского залива (in Russian)

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