One ship and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS King Alfred, after Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great

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Ships was a Drake-class

Drake class cruiser

The Drake-class was a four-ship class of armoured cruisers built around 1900 for the Royal Navy.-Design:The class were enlarged versions of the Cressy class.-History:The ships served in the First World War with only two surviving it...

 armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sold in 1920.

Shore establishments was a training establishment at Hove

Hove

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 and later at Exbury

Exbury

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. 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
    Portsmouth
    Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
    
     division of the Royal Naval Reserve
    Royal Naval Reserve
    The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...
    
    , commissioned in 1994 and extant as of 2009.