Queen Victoria (ship)
Queen Victoria has been the name of several ships:
- PS Queen Victoria (1838), 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
- RMS Queen Mary, according to shipping legend, initially supposed to be called Victoria in line with the naming of Cunard's liners, with an ending in -ia, as with Lusitania, Mauretania
- MS Arcadia (2004), a cruise liner which was intended to be Queen Victoria for Cunard Line
- MS Queen Victoria, a ship of similar design and specifications to Arcadia that was completed and named in 2007 for Cunard Line
A number of other ships have been named simply Victoria:
- Royal Victoria (ship) of Liverpool, lost 1864
- Victoria (ship), the first ship to circumnavigate the globe
- Spanish frigate Victoria (F82), a Spanish frigate
- HMS Victoria, five ships of the British Royal Navy
- MV Princess Victoria, a ferry which sank disastrously in 1953
- RMS Victoria, a Lake Victoria ferry built in Glasgow and reassembled in East Africa.
- 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
- Victoria (Liberian ship), a Liberian-flagship bringing Iranian weapons to Gaza.
See also
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