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| Name | Alexandra (1875) | Explanation | |
| Type | Central battery ironclad | ||
| Launched | 7 April 1875 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 9490 tons | ||
| Guns | 22 | ||
| Fate | 1908 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | Laid down as Superb. 1903 h.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 2 January 1877 - 11 March 1880 | Commanded by Captain Robert O'Brien Fitzroy, flagship, Mediterranean | ||
| 12 March 1880 - 16 December 1881 | Commanded by Captain Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, flagship of Vice-Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, in the Mediterranean | ||
| (11 July 1882) | Commanded by Captain Charles Frederick Hotham, flagship of Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, at the bombardment of Alexandria | ||
| 2 September 1884 - 13 July 1885 | Commanded by Captain Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford, flagship of Admiral Lord John Hay on the Mediterranean station | ||
| 9 February 1885 - 7 July 1885 | Commanded by Captain John Fellowes, harbour service | ||
| 8 March 1891 - 8 September 1892 | Commanded by Captain John Fellowes, Coast Guard ship, Portland (and manoeuvres 8 July - 6 August 1891 and 21 July 1892 - 26 August 1892) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 23 December 1875 | The work of excavating the third and last basin of the Chatham Dockyard Extension is making notable progress. About 1,500 convicts are engaged upon the undertaking, which is being carried out mainly by means of convict labour, under the direction of Mr. E.A Bernays, the civil engineer in charge at Chatham Dockyard. This fitting out basin will be much larger than the factory and the repairing basins, which were completed a considerable time back, and are now in use, the basin being constructed having an area of no less than 40 acres. A number of new workshops and factories are to be constructed near the varions basins. At this moment several convicts are engaged in erecting a large iron structure which will be used as a boiler-shop; other buildings for mechanical works have been constructed and have been fitted with machinery. The large armour-clad sbip Alexandra, and the iron corvette Rover are now being brought forward for service in the new part of the dockyard, each occupying a dock. | ||
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