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The Princess of Wales launching the new ironclad ship 'Alexandra', 1875. Launch of HMS Alexandra, a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, , the first British ironclad to be launched by a member of the royal family. It had been intended to call the ship HMS Superb, but the name was changed at her launching, which was undertaken by the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra. From the Illustrated London News, 17 April 1875.