| Name: | ST ALEXANDRE NEVSKY |
| Type: | Icebreaker |
| Launched: | 23/12/1916 |
| Completed: | 06/1917 |
| Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 905 |
| Dimensions: | 3375grt, 1330nrt, 264.2 x 64.1 x 21.2ft |
| Engines: | 3 x T3cyl (24.5, 38 & 61 x 39ins), 1038nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 3 x Screws (1 x forward, 2 x aft) |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 06/1917 | Government of Russia, Vladivostok |
| 09/1917 | British Royal Navy; renamed HMS ALEXANDER |
| 07/1921 | Government of Russia; renamed ALEXANDER |
| 04/08/1921 | Renamed LENIN, registered at Vladivostok |
| 1957 | Renamed VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN |
| 1977 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 09/1917: Seized while still in UK and commissioned into Royal Navy |
| 1919: Decommissioned and laid up at Rosyth | |
| 10/1943: Damaged by torpedo in the Kara Sea | |
| 1946-1947: Repaired in the UK | |
| 04/1968: Withdrawn from service & hulked | |
| 1977: Broken up in Russia |
Above photo as LENIN in Liverpool 1947 is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as LENIN in Liverpool 1947 is courtesy of Photoship
Dundee Evening Telegraph, Thursday, 04/08/1921
Courtesy of John Knight