VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN icebreaker

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Built as an ice-breaker under yard no 905 by the yard of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle, U.K. for the Russian Government, Vladivostok.
June 1916, laid down under the name of ST. ALEXANDRE NEVSKY.
23 December 1916, launched.
Tonnage 3.375 gross, dim. 264.2 x 64.1 ft.
Three expansions steam-engines 8.000 hp., three screws, speed 19 knots.
June 1917 completed.

She was seized in the U.K. circa September 1917, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as ALEXANDER (NN3) later (N 9A).
1919 Decommissioned, and handed over in Leith to the Russian Government on 03 August 1921.
1923 renamed in LENIN, in service in North Russia. Crew 122.
During the Second World War in October 1943 in position 74 00N 57 00E sank, she was refloated and repaired between 1946 and 1947 by Vicker Armstrong in the U.K.
1957 renamed in VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN.
April 1968 out of service, and hulked
1973 Deleted Lloyds Register.
1977 Broken up.

Russia 1976 16k sg4601, scott4535.

Source: Log Book. Navicula. Register of merchant Ships Completed in 1917.