Four vessels of the British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 have been named HMS Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

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, a wooden paddle sloop launched in India in 1839 and sold in about 1864, a first rate screw ship broken up in 1893, a Coast Guard yawl, sold in 1905, a Victoria-class battleship sunk in a collision with HMS Camperdown in 1893 in the Mediterranean with the loss of 358 lives.

See also

• Three Royal Yacht
  Royal Yacht
  A royal yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family. If the monarch is an emperor the proper term is imperial yacht. Most of them are financed by the government of the country of which the monarch is head...
  
  s have been named HMY Victoria and Albert
  HMY Victoria and Albert (disambiguation)
  Three British Royal Yachts have been named HMY Victoria and Albert after the British Monarch and her husband:*HMY Victoria and Albert was a twin paddle steamer launched 25 April 1843, later renamed Osborne...
  
  
• HMVS Victoria
  HMVS Victoria
  HMVS Victoria is the name of two ships serving in the Victorian Naval Forces, the colonial navy of the colony of Victoria, Australia, which is also the ships' namesake:, a sloop-of-war launched in 1855, a gunboat launched in 1884-See also:...
  
  , two ships of the colonial navy of Victoria, Australia