History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSVittoria
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 & type	Admiralty V-classdestroyer
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-Curtisssteam turbines 3 ×Yarrow-typewater-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)

HMSVittoria was aBritishdestroyer of theAdmiralty V-class. She was converted to aminelayer.

DuringAllied intervention in the Russian Civil War it wastorpedoed by theBolsheviksubmarinePantera off the island ofSeiskari in theGulf of Finland on 31 August 1919.^[1]

The sunken destroyer was given to the state of Finland on 12 December 1919 together with hersister shipVerulam; 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]

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

60°5′N28°23′E / 60.083°N 28.383°E /60.083; 28.383

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