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} in ) in 1888. | Ship yard number = | Ship way number = 93379 | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = March 29th, 1887 | Ship completed = 1887 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = 1887 | Ship out of service = 1915 | Ship identification = *Official Number 93379 *Code Letters P K C S * *〔Ships of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (Fred Henry) p.64〕 | Ship fate = Sold to the Admiralty together with her sister, ''Prince of Wales'', 1915. Scrapped in the Netherlands, 1920. | Ship status = Scrapped | Ship notes = }} |} PS (RMS) ''Queen Victoria'' No. 93379 was a steel built paddle steamer which was purchased together with her sister PS ''Prince of Wales'', by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company from the Isle of Man, Liverpool and Manchester Steamship Company in 1888 - referred to as ''The Manx Line''. ==Construction and dimensions== ''Queen Victoria'' was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan in 1887, and was launched on Tuesday March 29th, 1887. Fairfield's also supplied her engines and boilers. The cost of her construction is not recorded. However, she was purchased by the Steam Packet Company together with RMS ''Prince of Wales'' for the sum of £155,000 (£}} in ) Length 330'; beam 39'1"; depth 15'2". ''Queen Victoria'' had a registered tonnage of , was certified to carry 1546 passengers and had a crew complement of 69. Both sisters were fitted with compound engines developing at 40.5 r.p.m., with a boiler steam pressure of . Both the ''Queen Victoria's'' and ''Prince of Wales engines were referred to as a ''coupled two crankshaft engine''. The crankshaft was connected at the crank by a drag link, the object of which was to get the two cranks at right angles, one driving the valve gear of the other. The high pressure cylinder was horizontal to, and the low pressure cylinder diagonal to, the centre of the shaft. The two cylinders were 61 and 112 inches in diameter with a 78" inch stroke. So successful were these two ships that a number of other companies adopted the engine design for cross-channel work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Queen Victoria (1887)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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