PS Victoria (1886)
1886 The Victoria was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company for the Chatham and Dover Company's channel service.
1892 Accident to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's s.s. Victoria, damaging the paddles on one side when entering Calais during a gale on 7th December 1891.
'Steamers of the Thames and Medway' by Frank Burtt
The VICTORIA was a handsome two-funnelled boat having fore and aft main deck saloons. She was built in 1886 by Blackwood and Gordon, Port Glasgow, for the Wemyss Bay Steamship Co.
In 1890, she changed ownership being purchased by Mr. A. Campbell and in the following year was taken over by the Scottish Excursion Steamers Co. who ran her until she came round to the Thames in 1895 having been purchased by the London and East Coast Express Steamship Co. who ran her from London to the East Coast resorts until the close of 1900.
VICTORIA was of the following dimensions: Length 222.4 by 23.1 by 8. Gross tons 341. Two cylinder diagonal engines, the cylinders 40 in. by 66. N.H.P. 200.