page_title: HMVS Victoria (1855)
hierarchical_section_title: HMVS Victoria (1855)
caption_attribution_description: AWM Caption&#160;: "PORT MELBOURNE, VIC. 1867-11. THE STEAM SLOOP VICTORIA (I) SHOWING HER STARBOARD SIDE WITH THE SHIP DRESSED AND YARDS MANNED IN HONOUR OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, AUSTRALIA'S FIRST ROYAL VISITOR. BUILT FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY OF VICTORIA, VICTORIA (I) WAS THE FIRST WAR VESSEL CONSTRUCTED IN ENGLAND TO THE ORDER OF A BRITISH COLONY. LAUNCHED IN LONDON ON 1855-06-30 THE SHIP REACHED VICTORIA ON 1856-05-31. SHE CARRIED OUT DUTIES IN SEVERAL ROLES IN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WATERS UNTIL SOLD OUT OF NAVAL SERVICE IN THE LATE 1870S. FROM 1880 THE VESSEL WORKED AS A TENDER AND THEN AS AN EXCURSION STEAMER. VICTORIA (I) WAS FINALLY SOLD IN 1895-08 FOR BREAKING UP. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)".
context_page_description: HMVS Victoria was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia.
  She was the second warship to be built for an Australian colonial navy, the first British-built ship given to a colony of the British Empire, and the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas when she supported New Zealand colonists during the First Taranaki War.
context_section_description: HMVS Victoria (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship; also referred to with the prefix HMCSS-Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop) was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia.
  She was the second warship to be built for an Australian colonial navy, the first British-built ship given to a colony of the British Empire, and the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas when she supported New Zealand colonists during the First Taranaki War.
caption: Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop Victoria, dressed for the visit of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1867
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