HMT Victoria

HMT Victoria

History
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

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 i dense fog with Don Matias which sank. 1914-1918 on Government service. 1923 scrapped in Holland.

Soldiers carried

England to Le Havre 14 October 1916

• Percy James Blake
• † Arthur William Griffin
• Patrick Michael

Folkestone to Le Havre 2 November 1916

• Sylvanus Benjamin Buckland
• † Reuben Leeuwin Cousens

Folkestone to Étaples 15 November 1916

• Patrick Francis Brennan

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

England to Le Havre 4 December 1916

• Sidney Francis Till

Folkestone to Étaples 13 December 1916

• † Reuben Arnold MM
• Alfred James Hansen MM
• Leo Patrick Kane

England to Le Havre 3/4 February 1917

• Ernest Rulle Dalziell=
• John Macarthur Livingston
• † Felix Edmund John Sainsbury
• † Herbert Charles Smith