SS Vega

A number of steamships have carried the name Vega, including

• SS Vega (1872), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sailed in 1878 in Vega from Gothenburg along the coast of Siberia to Yokohama on his discovery of the Northeast Passage.
• SS Vega, launched in 1897 as Gambia and renamed in 1915, was sunk in 1916 by a U-Boat near Barcelona.^[1]
• SS Vega, a steamship, launched in 1897 at Flensburg as Nordland for the Danish company Nordsöen, Copenhagen. Vega struck a mine and sank on 20 December 1939^[2]
• SS Vega, launched in 1898 by Murdoch & Murray, Port Glasgow, was initially a Russian-flag passenger-cargo steamship, then became Tjaldur with the Danish line DFDS in 1904, and was then sold in 1939 to Panamanian-flag owners as Dora and was used by Zionist organizations to transport Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Palestine in 1939.^[3] In June 1942 it was sold to Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, rebuilt in Naples, and used as a supply ship to North Africa until shelled and sunk in December 1942 off Tunis by the Royal Navy^[4]
• SS Vega (1913), a Swedish steamship chartered by the Red Cross during World War II.

See also

• MV NYK Vega is a 103,000-ton container ship built for NYK Line in 2006
• MV Vega, is a 30,000-ton container ship which on 27 October 2010 rescued 98 fishermen who had abandoned their vessel, the Athena, after it caught fire in the Celtic Sea.