HMT Victoria
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| History | |
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| Name | HMT Victoria |
| Owner | Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Liverpool |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan |
| Yard number | 420 |
| Launched | 2 Jun 1902 |
| Completed | 1902 |
| In service | 5 Mar 1903 |
| Out of service | 1924 |
| Fate | Broken up mid 1924 at Hedrik-Ido-Ambacht |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger liner |
| Tonnage | 5,967 tons |
| Length | 401.4 ft (122.33m) |
| Beam | 52.3 ft (15.93m) |
| Depth | 26.2 ft (7.98m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 13.5 knots (25 km/h) |
| Capacity | 106 x 1st; 104 x 2nd; 595 x 3rd class |
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Remarks
Built for Pacific Steam Navigation Company to serve their South American routes. Could carry 106 first class, 104 second class, and 595 third class passengers. On 23 Jul 1908 Victoria was involved in a collision in dense fog with Don Matias which sank.
During WW1 she was requisitioned by the British to act as a troop carrier from 1914 - 1918, with at least 1916 and 1917 spent ferrying units and reinforcements from England to France using Folestone as its base. Victoria was returned to her owners post war, and in 1923 she was scrapped in Holland.
Soldiers carried
England to Le Havre 14 October 1916
Folkestone to Le Havre 2 November 1916
Folkestone to Étaples 15 November 1916
Folkestone to Étaples 16 November 1916
- † William Hall
- Thomas Percival (Percy) Hanretty
- † Gordon Weston Johanson
- Arthur Lewis
- Robert Poole
- Thomas Henry Rice
- † Albert Edward See