Queen Victoria (ship)

Queen Victoria (ship)

"Queen Victoria" has been the name of several ships:

* PS "Queen Victoria", a wooden paddlewheel steamer that was wrecked in 1853 off Bailey Lighthouse, Howth with the loss of over 80 people
* TS "Queen Mary" originally sailed as TS "Queen Victoria" from 1933 to 1935
*, according to shipping legend, initially supposed to be called "Victoria" in line with the naming of Cunard Steamship Lines liners, with an ending in "-ia", as with the "Lusitania", "Mauritania", and the like
*MS "Arcadia", a cruise liner which was intended to be "Queen Victoria" for Cunard Line. However, a restructuring by Cunard's parent company, Carnival Corporation, saw this vessel transferred to P&O as "Arcadia"
*MS "Queen Victoria" - a ship of similar design and specifications to the "Arcadia" that was completed and named in 2007 for Cunard Line

A number of other ships have been named simply "Victoria":
* "Victoria", the first ship to circumnavigate the globe
* "Victoria" (F82), a Spanish frigate
* HMS "Victoria", five ships of the British Royal Navy
* MV "Princess Victoria", a ferry which sank disastrously in 1953
* Lake Victoria ferry
* Victoria class submarine, a class of Canadian submarine
* MV "Victoria", a P&O cruise ship operated between 1998 and 2002, now named "Oceanic II"
* MS "Victoria I", a cruiseferry belonging to Tallink
* MS "Kronprinsessan Victoria", a ferry operated by Sessan Linjen and Stena Line 1981-1988, now sailing as MS "Stena Europe"
* MS "Crown Princess Victoria", a ferry operated by Stena Line in 1990, now sailing as MS "Amusement World"


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