HMS King Alfred

The Ship


Scrapped 1920


Built Vickers, Barrow, laid down August 1899, completed December 1903.

6th Cruiser Squadron The Grand Fleet.
October 1915 9th Cruiser Squadron Atlantic.
1917 North America and West Indies Station mainly as a convoy escort.
11 April 1918 Struck a mine (or possibly a torpedo) at Loch Swilly and was beached and later repaired but never entered active service again.
1920 Sold for scrap.

Size:
Length 500 feet pp 533 feet 6 inches overall, beam 71 feet 4 inches, draught 26 feet, displacement 14,150 tons load.

Propulsion:
2 shaft triple expansion engines, 30,000 ihp, 23 knots

Trials:
King Alfred 30,893 ihp = 23.46 knots

Armour:
6-2in belt, 6in barbettes, 6in turret faces, 2.5-1in decks

Armament:
2 x 9.2in Mk IX (2 x 1), 16 x 6in Mk VII (16 x 1), 3 x 3pounder (3 x 1), 2 x 18in TT

My Postcards

Tuck's - Not postally used
Postcard series: Tuck's, Oilette - Our Navy
Series number: I
Postcard number: 9082

 

Not postally used.
Postcard series: Tuck's, Oilette - Our Ironclads
Series number: II
Postcard number: 9082

 

POstally used 27 Nov 1945. A late posting of an early postcard? Another 'odd' message.
Postcard series: Tuck's, Oilette - Our Navy
Series number: I
Postcard number: 9082

 

Not postally used.
Postcard series: Tuck's
Series number: 1
Postcard number: 6584

 

Not postally used.
Postcard series: Bells' Westcliff

 

A very young looking sailor from HMS KIng Alfred. Not postally used.

 

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