HMS ''Verulam'' was an
Admiralty V-class destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
of the
Royal Navy. She was built by
Hawthorn Leslie and was launched on 3 October 1917. She struck a
mine
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Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
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*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
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off the island of
Seiskari in the
Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...
on the night between 3–4 September 1919, and sank killing 16 crew.
The sunken destroyer was given to the state of Finland on 12 December 1919 together with her
sister ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They often share a ...
; however, when salvage efforts began in 1925, it was found that both ships were broken in two and impossible to repair.
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V and W-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
Ships built on the River Tyne
1917 ships
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Finland
Maritime incidents in 1919
Ships sunk by mines
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