Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Verulam was a 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 September-4, 1919, and sank. 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.