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Name: VITTORIA
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 21/02/1917
Launched: 29/10/1917
Completed: 09/03/1918
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1047
Dimensions: 1300disp, 300.0 x 29.5 x 9.3(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, 27000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 34.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 3.0ins QF guns, 2 x 2 x 21.0ins torpedoes
History:
05/1918 British Royal Navy
01/09/1919 Sank
Comments: Member of the Admiralty V/W Class of destroyers
Converted into a minelayer
01/09/1919: Torpedoed and sunk by the Bolshevik submarine PANTERA
off the island of Seiskari in the Gulf of Finland
12/12/1919: Wreck donated to the state of Finland to raise & repair
1925: Salvage operations showed she had broken in two & impossible to repair


Above photo courtesy of Photoship