Four vessels of the

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have been named HMS ''Victoria'' in honour of

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: * , a wooden paddle sloop launched in India in 1839 and sold in about 1864 * , a first rate screw ship broken up in 1893 * , a Coast Guard yawl, sold in 1905 * , a ''Victoria''-class battleship sunk in a collision with HMS ''Camperdown'' in 1893 in the Mediterranean with the loss of 358 lives.

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