HMS King Alfred (1901)

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.

Service history
King Alfred was built by Vickers Limited at Barrow-in-Furness and launched on 28 October 1901, when she was named by the Countess of Lathom.

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.