Royal Navy's Worst Peacetime Loss of Life, 1893

The Times reports:

THE wreck of HMS Victoria, once the flagship of the Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, has been discovered off the coast of Lebanon, 111 years after being rammed by another British warship during manoeuvres and sinking with the loss of 358 lives. [. . .]

And in an extraordinary fluke, the wreck, lying in more than 350 ft of water off the coast of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, is in a vertical position, with about a quarter of her length buried in the sea floor. It is thought to be the only known shipwreck in the world in a 90-degree position.

For anyone who remembers the brilliant 1949 Alec Guinness film "Kind Hearts and Coronets", this is the real-life event that the film appropriated to eliminate one of the competing claimants to the title.