A number of steamships have carried the name Vega, including
, Nordenskiöld's ship on his discovery of the Northeast Passage

• SS Vega, ex Gambia renamed in 1915, sunk in 1916 by a U-Boat near Barcelona
• SS Vega, a Finnish steamship captured by U-41 on 17 September 1939
• SS Vega, a Swedish steamship which struck a mine and sank on 20 December 1939
• SS Vega, passenger cargo steamship built in 1898, called Tjaldur until 1904 when it was renamed Dora until name changed in 1939 to Vega when it was registered in Panama. In June 1942 it was sold to the German Navy
  German Navy
  The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...
  
   and rebuilt in Naples
  Naples
  Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
  
  , used as a supply ship to North Africa it was shelled and sunk in December 1942 off Tunis
  Tunis
  Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....
  
   by the British Navy
• SS Vega, a Red Cross ship that delivered relief parcels supplied by Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   and New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   from Lisbon
  Lisbon
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   to Guernsey
  Guernsey
  Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
  
   and Jersey
  Jersey
  Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
  
  in December 1944 with five further trips with the last at the end of May 1945.

PHOTOS

1944 photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishredcross/4545583564/

BOOKS

Printed in 1882. The Voyage of the Vega and its results. Arctic exploration by Ellen M. Clerke

Printed in 1996. A tribute to the SS Vega. Supply ship for the Channel Islands by Keith Taylor