HMS Victoria

Four 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 (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.

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