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unusual facts about HMVS ''Countess of Hopetoun''



Hersey Hope, Marchioness of Linlithgow

The torpedo gunboat HMVS Countess of Hopetoun was named after her in 1890.

HMS Victoria

HMVS Victoria, two ships of the colonial navy of Victoria, Australia

HMVS Childers

Later that month, she was in Malta on her delivery voyage to Victoria with HMVS Albert and HMVS Victoria when news of General Gordon's death at Khartoum arrived.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.


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