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"HMS Victoria capsizing boats going to rescue crew" by Reginald Graham, 1893 Artistic rendering of the collision between Victoria and Camperdown as it appeared in a French illustrated weekly. The news of the accident caused a sensation and appalled the British public at a time when the Royal Navy occupied a prime position in the national ...
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]
HMS Victoria was a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.She and her sister ship HMS Howe were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, and were the largest wooden battleships of their time.
HMS Victoria – Accidentally rammed by HMS Camperdown and sunk on 22 June when preparing to anchor off Tripoli in Syria (now part of Lebanon) when Vice Admiral George Tryon ordered two parallel lines of ships to turn toward each other. Of Victoria ' s 715 crew, 357 were rescued and 358 lost, including Tryon. 358 1875 Germany
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 ...
Ship State Description HMS Victoria Royal Navy: HMS Victoria sinking at right. The battleship HMS Nile is at left. The Victoria-class battleship collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown ( Royal Navy) in the Mediterranean Sea near Tripoli, Lebanon, and sank with 358 crew killed, 357 rescued.
She was completed in the summer 1901, seven months after the death of Queen Victoria. The total cost of the ship was £572,000, five-sevenths the cost of the battleship HMS Renown. The vessel had an antiquated look when launched as the design was made to resemble the 1855 side wheel steamer Victoria and Albert. Unlike yachts of other monarchs ...
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]