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) were soon in the Eastern Mediterranean theatre, in support of troopships and even warships in the submarine-infested seas. At one time during the Gallipoli Campaign they found themselves accompanying their Steam Packet sister "Snaefell", which was landing troops at Suvla Bay. After the Great War, she was sold in 1920 to Ambacht in the Netherlands for £5,450 (equivalent to £ in ); and was broken up. SS Queen Victoria (1887) PS (RMS) "Queen Victoria" No. 93379 was a steel built paddle steamer which was purchased together with her sister PS "Prince of Wales", by the Isle of Man Steam Packet