HMS Verulam was an 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 3–4 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 ; however, when salvage efforts began in 1925, it was found that both ships were broken in two and impossible to repair. Notes Bibliography 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