HMS_Verulam_(1917)

HMS <i>Verulam</i> (1917)

HMS Verulam (1917)

Destroyer of the Royal Navy

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

HMS Verulam was an Admiralty V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on 3 October 1917. She struck a mine off the island of Seiskari in the Gulf of Finland on the night between 3–4 September 1919, and sank killing 16 crew.[1]

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The sunken destroyer was given to the state of Finland on 12 December 1919 together with her sister ship Vittoria; however, when salvage efforts began in 1925, it was found that both ships were broken in two and impossible to repair.

Notes

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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission 2020.

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