Unfortunately due to a strong swell in Douglas Bay, resulting in a rise and fall of approximately 7 ft (2.13 m), it was thought that it would prove too risky for Victoria to get alongside.

[3] Victoria was chartered by the London Midland & Scottish Railway for one day to assist in the August Bank Holiday traffic on the Holyhead – Dún Laoghaire route in 1938.

Minefields were laid by the Royal Navy around the approaches to the Mersey as a protection against enemy U-boats, and Steam Packet Company Captains would be given orders on how to proceed.

After an overhaul in Leith and service from Dundee, she was ordered to Southampton in the summer of 1943, where she was employed on training infantry for the forthcoming assault on Occupied Europe.

On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Victoria was one of the vessels scheduled to land assault forces on the western extreme of the small bay of Arromanches, which was one of the three British Army spearheads into Occupied France.

Whilst the landing was successfully executed, a German flack-ship on routine anti-invasion exercise was in the bay and was able to produce superior fire power to the wave of assault craft which were discharging the troops.

Some days after D-Day, the Victoria landed American assault forces on Utah beach, where resistance had been encountered.

At the end of the 1956 season an inspection revealed the necessary work required in order for her to be re-issued with her passenger certificate could not be justified.

Coupled to this with the aftermath of the Suez Crisis resulting in increased operating costs by the Steam Packet as a consequence of higher oil prices, together with introduction into service of the six sisters, the decision was taken to dispose of her at the end of the 1956 tourist season.

[6] Upon her decommissioning, her ship's bell was presented to the Cronk Ruagh Sanatorium at Ramsey, Hospital, Isle of Man.