The Queen of Victoria was a ferry of the Canadian shipping company BC Ferries , which entered service as the City of Victoria in 1962 . The ship remained in service until 2001 and was scrapped in 2006 after five years of unused lay time in Santo Domingo under the name Queen of Ocoa in India.
history
The City of Victoria was built under construction number 94 at the Victoria Machinery Depot Company in Victoria and was launched on October 24, 1961. After delivery to BC Ferries in February 1962, the ship began ferry operations from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen . After a year in service, it was named Queen of Victoria in 1963 .
In 1970 the Queen of Victoria was lengthened from 104.33 to 129.98 meters. The tonnage increased from 3,541 to 4,903 GRT . In August of the same year, it collided with the Soviet cargo ship Sergei Jesinen off Vancouver , killing three people.
After nearly forty years of service that was Queen Victoria retired in January 2001 and after Santo Domingo sold where they henceforth under the name Queen of Ocoa rested . The ship did not get under way again, but was instead sold for demolition in Alang , India , where it arrived on January 5, 2006.
