| Name: | VICTORIA |
| Type: | Battleship |
| Keel: | 23/04/1885 |
| Launched: | 09/04/1887 |
| Completed: | 19/03/1890 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 490 |
| Dimensions: | 11020disp, 340.0 x 70.0 x 26.9(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (43, 62 & 96 x 51ins), 7500 - 14244ihp |
| Engines by: | Humphrys, Tennant & Co, Deptford |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 16.0 - 17.3knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 x 16.25ins, 1 x 10.0ins, 12 x 1 x 6.0ins guns; 6 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 19/03/1890 | British Royal Navy |
| 22/06/1893 | Sank |
| Comments: | Laid down as RENOWN but name changed to VICTORIA before launch |
| Cost £845,000 to build | |
| 29/01/1892: Ran aground at Snipe Point near Platea, Greece | |
| 04/02/1892: Refloated but with extensive forward bottom damage | |
| Docked at Malta to repair the damage | |
| 22/06/1893: Sunk off Tripoli after collision with CAMPERDOWN | |
| Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon ordered 2 parallel columns of 6 and 5 ships to turn inwards to firstly reverse direction and then move to anchor | |
| Due, first to misunderstandings and then reluctance to disobey orders, the two lead ships of the colums collided | |
| CAMPERDOWN's ram penetrated VCTORIA 12ft below the waterline and 9ft into the side. Too many hatches and ventilation ducts were open and she slowly sank by the head | |
| 13 mins after the collision VICTORIA capsised and sank bows first with the loss of 358 crew, 357 were rescued | |
| In 2004 her wreck was discovered in a vertical position with some 90ft of her bow impaled in the mud |
Above photo as RENOWN is copyright of Tyne & Wear Archives
Above photo as VICTORIA is copyright of Tyne & Wear Archives
VICTORIA launch. Above photo is copyright of Northumberland County Council Archives
Passing through the swing bridge. Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Passing through the swing bridge. Above photo is copyright Tyne & Wear Archives
Above image is copyright of W Fred Mitchell
Bow view of VICTORIA in dry dock at Malta. Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above image is copyright of the Brassey Naval Annual 1888-9