Queen Victoria (ship)

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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, the name of the P&O cruise ship Mona Lisa between 1998 and 2002
• M/S Victoria I, a ferry belonging to Tallink