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HMS Alexandra in 1886
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History | |
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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 |
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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]