HMS Vortigern

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HMS Vortigern was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served in both World Wars, and was sunk in 1942.

1918  WikimediaWikidata
D37
length 95.1 metre, speed 34 knot, draft 2.7 metre, beam 8.9 metre, 
shipwreckdestroyerV and W-class destroyerRoyal NavyJ. Samuel White


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  • HMS Umpire
    1940 U-class submarine
  • SS Cantabria
    prison ship Alfonso Perez
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1918 HMS Vortigern
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ship commissioning
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ship launching
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keel laying
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Destroyer HMS Vortigern, pennant number G 03 - IWM Q 75528Destroyer HMS Vortigern, pennant number G 03 - IWM Q 75528
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-2020-12-28 CWGC gravestone, Petty Officer F. H. Blundell, Royal Navy, HMS Vortigern, Cromer town cemetery-2020-12-28 CWGC gravestone, Petty Officer F. H. Blundell, Royal Navy, HMS Vortigern, Cromer town cemetery
    TypeSubtypeDateDescriptionNotesSource
    eventarmed conflict1915Zeppelin air raid on Norfolk 19-20 January 1915German Empire, Peter Strasser, Horst Julius Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels, military operation, airstrikeWikidata
    eventarmed conflict1938Sinking of the SS CantabriaFrancoist Spain, Second Spanish Republic, naval battleWikidata
    linkpageDreadnought Project page@Wikidata
    linkpagenaval-history.net page@Wikidata
    linkpageuboat.net page@Wikidata
    objectwatercraftHMS UmpireU-class submarine, submarineWikidata
    objectwatercraftSS Cantabriaprison ship, cargo shipWikidata
    sitecastle1470Baconsthorpe Castlefortified manor house, English Heritage, archaeological siteWikidata
    sitemuseumMuckleburgh Collectionmilitary museumWikidata
    siteshipwreckHMS C11C-class submarine, shipwreck, submarineWikidata
    siteshipwreck1918HMS VortigernV and W-class destroyer, shipwreck, destroyerWikidata
    commonsimageDestroyer HMS Vortigern, pennant number G 03 - IWM Q 75528 Commons
    commonsimageCatalunya Gràfica - núm 6 (1922)-16 5 Commons
    commonsimageCatalunya Gràfica - núm 6 (1922)-16 5 Commons
    commonsimage-2020-12-28 CWGC gravestone, Petty Officer F. H. Blundell, Royal Navy, HMS Vortigern, Cromer town cemetery Commons