HMS Alexandra

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HMS Alexandra in 1886
History
United Kingdom
Namesake	Alexandra, Princess of Wales
Builder	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	5 March 1873
Launched	7 April 1875
Commissioned	31 January 1877
Fate	Sold 1908 and broken up
General characteristics
Displacement	9,490 tons
Length	325 ft (99 m) pp, 344 ft (105 m) oa
Beam	63 ft 8 in (19.41 m)
Draught	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Propulsion	2-shaft Humphreys vertical inverted compound, 8,498 ihp (6.337 MW)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	674
Armament	1877: Two 11-inch (280 mm) muzzle-loading rifles Ten 10-inch (254 mm) rifled muzzle-loading guns Six 13-cwt (660 kg) breech-loaders Four torpedo carriages 1891: Four BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) guns Eight 10-inch muzzle-loading rifles Six BL 4-inch (100 mm) guns 1897: Four 9.2-inch (230 mm) breech-loaders Eight 10-inch muzzle-loading rifles Six QF 4.7-inch (120-mm) guns
Armour	Main deck battery 12 inches (300 mm) Upper deck battery 8 inches (200 mm) Belt 12 inches tapering to 6 inches (150 mm) Bulkheads 8 inches (200 mm) to 5 inches (130 mm) Deck 1.5 inches (38 mm) to 1-inch (25 mm)

HMS Alexandra was a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose seagoing career was from 1877 to 1900. She spent much of her career as a flagship, and took part in operations to deter the Russian Empire's aggression against the Ottoman Empire in 1878 and the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. She was affectionately known by her crew as Old Alex.

She was named after the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra.^[1]