Queen Victoria (ship)

Queen Victoria has been the name of several ships:

. An immigrant ship that sailed between Le Havre and New York from 1843 to 1852

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 Steamship Lines liners, with an ending in -ia, as with Lusitania, Mauritania, and the like
MS Arcadia (2004), 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 Arcadia that was completed and named in 2007 for Cunard Line

A number of other ships have been named simply Victoria:

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