HMS Victoria
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- For other ships named Victoria see Victoria (transportation)
Five vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria:
- HMS Victoria (1839), a wooden paddle sloop launched in India in 1839 and sold in about 1864.
- HMS Victoria (1855), an Australian wooden screw sloop later used as a survey ship.
- HMS Victoria (1859), a first rate screw ship broken up in 1893.
- HMS Victoria (1864), a Coast Guard yawl, sold in 1905.
- HMS Victoria (1887), a Victoria-class battleship sunk in a collision with HMS Camperdown in 1893 in the Mediterranean with the loss of 358 lives.
[edit] See also
- HMY Victoria and Albert III served as the Royal Yacht between 1901 and 1937.
- In 1854, the steam vessel Victoria was one of the ships transporting British troops to Turkey during the Crimean War. [1]
- There have also been several United States Navy ships called USS Victoria, although they were named for geographic locations rather than the British monarch
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