upwards towards the surface. This position is not unique among shipwrecks as first thought, as the Russian monitor 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 coupled with the still-turning propellers driving the wreck downwards. References Bibliography Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command, John Murray. David Brown, Warrior to Dreadnought: Warship development 1860–1905, Chatham Publishing. Richard Hough, Admirals in Collision, Hamish Hamilton, London. Copyright 1959. Oscar Parkes British Battleships, . Louis Decimus Rubin, The Summer the Archduke Died: Essays on Wars and Warriors, University of Missouri Press, [2008], Rear-Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald, Life of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon K.C.B., William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh and London, 1897 The Times, The Loss of HMS Victoria, 2 November 1893, page 4, issue 34098, column A. (Admiralty minutes describing the sinking) Minutes of Proceedings at a Court-Martial held on board her Majesty's ship Hibernia at Malta, on Monday, the seventeenth day of July 1893; and by adjournment, every day thereafter (Sunday excepted) to the Twenty-seventh day of July 1893, to enquire into the loss of her Majesty's ship Victoria , Her Majesty's Stationery Office, printed by Darling & son Ltd, 1893. External links Victoria memorial in Portsmouth Lebanon Daily Star article on the discovery of the wreck HMS Victoria on the wrecksite, including video and position Poem by William McGonagall commemorating the loss of the Victoria Roll of Honour Ships built on the River Tyne Ships built by Armstrong Whitworth Victoria-class battleships Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea Maritime incidents in 1893 1887 ships Ships sunk in collisions Victoria