SS Victoria (1896)

History
Name:	SS Victoria
Operator:	1896-1920:London and South Western Railway 1920-1925:James Dredging, Towage and Transport, Southampton 1925-1927:Joseph Constant, London 1927-1935 The Patriotic, Cie de Navigation a Vapeur et d’Armement, Piraeus 1935-1937:L Taryazos, Piraeus
Port of registry:
Builder:	J and G Thomson, Clydebank
Yard number:	297
Launched:	15 June 1896
Out of service:	1937
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage:	710 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	220.5 feet (67.2 m)
Beam:	28.1 feet (8.6 m)
Draught:	16.3 feet (5.0 m)

SS Victoria was a passenger vessel built for the London and South Western Railway in 1896.^[1]

History

The ship was built by J and G Thomson of Clydebank and launched on 15 June 1896^[2] by Miss Dunlop of Dowanhill. She was intended for the railway company’s service between Southampton and the Channel Islands and France.

At the outbreak of the First World War she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Q-ship. She was an accommodation vessel in Southampton in 1920 and sold to James Dredging, Towage and Transport in Southampton. In 1925 she was sold to Joseph Constant in London who sold her again in 1927 to Cie de Navigation a Vapeur et d’Armement in Piraeus. After a further sale in 1935 she was scrapped in 1935.

References

1. Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
2. "Launches and Trial Trips". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 16 June 1896. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).