View source for PS Victoria (1881)

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*1881–1899: [[London and South Western Railway]] and [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]]
*1899–1900: [[File:Red Funnel flag.svg|border|20px]] Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, ([[Red Funnel]])
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'''PS ''Victoria''''' was a passenger vessel built for the [[London and South Western Railway]] and [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] in 1881.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duckworth |first1=Christian Leslie Dyce |last2=Langmuir |first2=Graham Easton |date=1968 |title=Railway and other Steamers |language=English |location=Prescot, Lancashire |publisher= T. Stephenson and Sons }}</ref>

==History==

The ship was built in steel by Aitken and Mansel and launched on 9 September 1881.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Launch at Whiteinch |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18810910/010/0004 |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Scotland |date=10 September 1881 |access-date=14 November 2015|via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Her engines were by David Rowan of Glasgow. She was the first ship constructed for a joint venture between the [[London and South Western Railway]] and the [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] for the passenger trade to the [[Isle of Wight]]. She was double-ended, with two funnels.

Official registries show that in 1899 she transferred to the [[Red Funnel|Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company]]<ref name=adams15 /> and was scrapped in 1900. However, there is no mention of her ever being purchased or chartered in the company records.<ref name=adams15>{{cite book |last=Adams |first=Keith |date=2010 |title=Red Funnel 150 Celebrating One Hundred and Fifty Years of The Original Isle of Wight Ferries|publisher=Richard Danielson |page=15 |isbn=9780951315552}}</ref>

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[[Category:1881 ships]]
[[Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Clyde]]
[[Category:Ships of the London and South Western Railway]]
[[Category:Ships of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]]
[[Category:Ships of Red Funnel]]