HMS King Alfred explained

One ship and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS King Alfred, after Alfred the Great:

Ships

• was a armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sold in 1920.

Shore establishments

• was a training establishment at Hove and later at Exbury. It was commissioned at Hove in 1939, moved to Exbury in January 1946 and paid off in August that year, reopening as .
  • HMS King Alfred II was a branch of the main King Alfred between 1940 and 1944, being renamed HMS King Alfred (M) in 1943.
  • HMS King Alfred II was the Hove base from January 1946 after the main base had moved to Exbury, until being paid off in June 1946.
• is the Portsmouth division of the Royal Naval Reserve, commissioned in 1994.