HMS King Alfred (1901)

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Class and type: Drake-class armoured cruiser
Name: HMS King Alfred
Builder: Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched: 28 October 1901
Fate: Sold 30 January 1920 for breaking up
General characteristics
Displacement: 14,100 tons
Length: 500 ft (150 m)
Beam: 71 ft (22 m)
Armament:

2 x BL 9.2-inch (233.7 mm) Mk X guns in single turrets
16 x BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) Mk VII guns in casemates along hull

12 x 12 pounder guns

HMS King Alfred was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after Alfred the Great, historical king of Wessex. She was built by Vickers Limited at Barrow-in-Furness and launched on 28 October 1901.

Like her sisters, King Alfred served in the First World War, surviving it to be sold for breaking up on 30 January 1920. She was finally broken up in the Netherlands.

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