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
