Victoria - Queen Victoria (ship)

Queen Victoria has been the designation for several ships:

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

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
  • M/S Victoria I, a cruiseferry belonging to Tallink
  • M/S Kronprinsessan Victoria, a ferry operated by Sessan Linjen and Stena Line 1981-1988, now named M/S Stena Europe
  • M/S Crown Princess Victoria, a ferry operated by Stena Line in 1990, now sailing as M/S Amusement World.

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