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2. MS Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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   MS. Queen Victoria. MS Queen Victoria (QV) is a Vista-class cruise ship operated by the Cunard Line and is named after the former British monarch Queen Victoria. The vessel is of the same basic design as other Vista-class cruise ships, including Queen Elizabeth. At 90,049 gross tonnage (GT) she is the smallest of Cunard 's ships in operation.

3. HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) - Wikipedia

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   HMY Victoria and Albert was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The yacht was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Sir William White, launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. This was the third yacht to be named Victoria and Albert and she was fitted with steam engines fired by Belleville water-tube boilers.

4. RMS Umbria - Wikipedia

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   RMS Umbria was a British ocean liner of the Cunard Line. She and her sister ship RMS Etruria were the last two Cunard express ocean liners that were fitted with auxiliary sails. Umbria was also the last express steamship to be built for a North Atlantic route with a compound engine. By 1885, the triple expansion engine was the almost universal ...

5. HMS Victory - Wikipedia

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   Notes. Height from waterline to top of mainmast: 205 ft (62.5 m) HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.

6. Works by Queen Victoria’s favourite artist to go on show in ...

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   September 8, 2024 at 7:01 PM. A sketch of Queen Victoria and her family in mourning after the death of Prince Albert is among works by a Scottish artist in an exhibition in his home city of ...

7. HMS Victoria (1887) - Wikipedia

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   HMS. Victoria. (1887) HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near Tripoli, Lebanon, during manoeuvres and quickly sank, killing 358 crew members, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. [4]

8. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. The 1,300-pound (590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent , probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford.

9. HMY Britannia - Wikipedia

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   HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast.