The Civil war and foreign military intervention in Russia, 1917-1922. On June 17, 1920, while loading petroleum oil in the port of Batumi, the Lady Thea vessel (the renamed steamship Svet) set on fire. To prevent a disaster the Lady Thea was sunk by artillery of the British destroyer Swallow.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Batumi, Georgia
- Event date: 17.06.1920
- Date published: 06.04.2017
- Author: RIA Novosti
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: R66-359, 6x9 film
- Media: JPEG, 3780x6176px, 7.2Mb