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{{Infobox ship
| image          = [[File:HMT_Princess_Victoria.jpg]]
| caption        = 
| image2         = [[File:HMT_Princess_Victoria_1.jpg]]
| caption2       = 
| shipname =  HMT Princess Victoria
| shipowner = Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways, Stranraer 
| shipbuilder = William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton
| shipyardnumber = 963
| shiplaunched = 22 Feb 1912
| shipcompleted = 20 Apr 1912	
| shipinservice = 1912
| shipoutofservice = 1934
| shipinservice2 =	
| shipoutofservice2 =
| shipreclassified =	
| shipID =
| shipfate = Broken up at Stranraer, Scotland 1934
| shiptype = Steamer
| shiptonnage = 1,678 tons
| shiplength = 300.6 ft (91.59m)
| shipbeam = 40.2 ft (12.24m)
| shipdepth = 16.5 ft (5.0m)  draft 13.5 ft (4.09m)
| shippropulsion = 	
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==Remarks==
Pre-war the ''Princess Victoria'' operated as a Railway Ferry between Strarraer (Scotland) and Larne, Northern Ireland.



In 1914 with the outbreak of war the ''Princess Victoria'' was requisitioned by the Admiralty to act as a Fleet Messenger, until 2 May 1915 when she was released back to her owners. However, it appears that she was then hired as a troop carrier used to transport men from southern English ports to France.


Returned to her previos work, in 1923 her ownership changed wih the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, of Stranraer taking over her management until she was scrapped in 1934.

==Soldiers carried==

===Folkestone to Étaples 4 December 1916===
* [[Edward Bailey]]
* [[Richard Beattie]]
* † [[Albert Victor Berry]]
* [[John Goffin]]
* [[William Simpson]]

===Folkestone to France 20 December 1916===
* [[William James Allen]]
* [[Arthur Leworthy Bettenay]]
* [[Wilfred George Bettenay]]

===Folkestone to France 28 December 1916===
* † [[Ernest James Mead]]
* [[Leonard George Morgan]]
* † [[Samuel James Verrier]]

===Folkestone to France 16 January 1917===
* † [[Thomas Denteith]]
* [[Edward Hobson]]
* [[Daniel Adkins Lewis]]
* [[Thomas William Moore]]
* [[Leonard George Morgan]]
* [[William Bertie Claude Moulden]]
* [[Hartland Wheare Richards]]
* [[Arthur Swindlehurst MM]]
* [[Ernest Charles Thomas]]
* [[Hartland Wheare Richards]]

===Folkestone to France 4 February 1917===
* [[Ellis Henry Hill]]
* [[Ernest (Roy) William Sladden]]

===Folkestone to France 8 February 1917===
* [[Claude Robert Marsh]]
* [[Herbert Fuhrmann]]
* [[John Edmond Rhodes]]

===Folkestone to Boulogne 9 February 1916===
* [[Edward William Tink]]

===Folkestone to France 15 February 1917===
* [[Alexander Donald]]
* [[Patrick Francis Fitzgerald]]
* [[John Edmond Rhodes]]

===Le Havre, France to England 22 April 1917===
* [[William Simpson]]



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