Four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria:HMS Victoria (1839), a wooden paddle sloop launched in India in 1839 and sold in about 1864 HMS Victoria (1859), a first rate screw ship broken up in 1893 HMS Victoria (1864), a Coast Guard yawl, sold in 1905 HMS Victoria (1887), a Victoria-class battleship sunk in a collision with HMS Camperdown in 1893 in the Mediterranean with the loss of 358 lives.