HMS Alexander

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alexander:

• HMS Alexander was a 12-gun fire ship captured 1688. Accidentally burned in 1689.
• HMS Alexander was a third-rate launched in 1778. She participated in the Battle of the Nile. She became a hulk in1805 and was broken up in 1819.
• HMS Alexander was a store ship in service 1788–1790.
• HMS Alexander was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1796 and sold in 1802.
• HMS Alexander was a second-rate captured from the French in 1806 by the fleet off San Domingo. She was put into harbour service in 1811 and sold in 1822.
• HMS Alexander was a discovery vessel 1818–1819
• HMS Alexander was a Saint Alexander Nevsky icebreaker was built for Tsarist Russia in Tyne. It was seized from by the Royal Navy as HMS Alexander in 1917 and returned to White Russians in 1919. She was renamed Lenin by the Soviet Union.

Alexander was also the name of a vessel used in New Zealand:

• Alexander (1863) was an iron screw transport boat built in Renfrew and launched in 1863. She was manned by the Royal Navy and operated as a supply boat during the New Zealand land wars. In 1865 she was wrecked near Taranaki.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.