A number of steamships have carried the name Vega, including
- SS Vega (1872), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sailed in 1878 in Vega from Gothenburg along the coast of Siberia to Yokohama on his discovery of the Northeast Passage.
- SS Vega, launched in 1897 as Gambia and renamed in 1915, was sunk in 1916 by a U-Boat near Barcelona.[1]
- SS Vega, a Swedish steamship, launched in 1897 at Flensburg as Nordland for the Danish company Nordsöen, Copenhagen. Vega struck a mine and sank on 20 December 1939[2]
- SS Vega (1898), a Russian-flag passenger-cargo steamship, became Tjaldur with the Danish line DFDS in 1904 and was then sold in 1939 to Panamanian-flag owners as Dora. In June 1942 it was sold to Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, rebuilt in Naples, and used as a supply ship to North Africa until shelled and sunk in December 1942 off Tunis by the Royal Navy[3]
- SS Vega (1913), a Swedish steamship chartered by the Red Cross during World War II.
See also
edit- MV NYK Vega is a 103,000-ton container ship built for NYK Line in 2006
- MV Vega, is a 30,000-ton container ship which on 27 October 2010 rescued 98 fishermen who had abandoned their vessel, the Athena, after it caught fire in the Celtic Sea.
References
edit- ^ "SS Vega 1895".
- ^ "SS Vega 1897".
- ^ "Vega". Scottish Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
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