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