A number of steamships have carried the name ''Vega'', including
*,
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friher ...
sailed in 1878 in ''Vega'' from
Gothenburg
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along the coast of
Siberia
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to
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
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.
*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
*, a Russian-flag passenger-cargo steamship, became ''Tjaldur'' with the Danish line
DFDS
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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
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'', rebuilt in
Naples
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, and used as a supply ship to North Africa until shelled and sunk in December 1942 off
Tunis
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by the
Royal Navy
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*, a Swedish steamship chartered by the
Red Cross
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during World War II.
See also
*MV ''NYK Vega'' is a 103,000-ton container ship built for
NYK Line
Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Mail Shipping Line), also known as NYK Line, is a Japanese shipping company and is a member of the Mitsubishi ''keiretsu''. The company headquarters are located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It operates a flee ...
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
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.
References
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Ship names