Queen Victoria Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke and the King died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers
SS Queen Victoria (1887) with RMS "Prince of Wales" for the sum of £155,000 (equivalent to £ in ) Length 330'; beam 39'1"; depth 15'2". "Queen Victoria" had a registered tonnage of , was certified to carry 1546 passengers and had a crew complement of 69. Both sisters were fitted with compound engines developing at 40.5 r.p.m., with a boiler steam pressure of . Both the "Queen Victoria" and "Prince of Wales" engines were referred to as a "coupled two crankshaft engine". The crankshaft was connected at the crank by a drag link, the object of which was to get the two cranks at