Sinking of HMS Victoria
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The sinking of HMS Victoria took place at approximately 15:30 on 22 June 1893, after HMS Victoria, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, collided with HMS Camperdown while on fleet man
Victoria sinking after the collision, taken from HMS Collingwood. HMS Nile is on the left.
HMS Victoria
HMS Camperdown
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon
Russian monitor Rusalka
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Rusalka, was one of two Charodeika-class monitors built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1860s. She served for her entire career with the Baltic Fleet. Aside from hitting an uncharted rock not lon
Sinking of HMS Victoria
…mud and her stern pointing directly upwards towards the surface. This position is not unique among shipwrecks as first thought, as the Russian monitor Rusalka also rests like this. The unusual attitude of this wreck is thought to have been due to the heavy single turret forward containing the main armament…
Rusalka in drydock, 1868
Side view of the monument in 2012