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HMY Alexandra
HMY ''Alexandra'' was a steamship built as a British royal yacht, completed in 1908. Normally transporting British royals to European ports, ''Alexandra'' served as a hospital ship during the First World War. After 17 years of British service, she was sold to Norwegian commercial interests in 1925. Renamed ''Prins Olav'', she was first used as a luxury cruise ship on trips to the North Cape, she was converted to take more passengers and cargo. In 1937 she began sailing as a ''Hurtigruten'' passenger/cargo ship along the coast of Norway. After being requisitioned by the Norwegian government following the 9 April 1940 German invasion of Norway, she transported troops for the Norwegian war effort. ''Prins Olav'' was sunk by German bombers on 9 June 1940, while attempting to escape to the United Kingdom as the Norwegian Campaign was coming to an end.
==Background==
''Alexandra'' was intended to supplement the larger royal yacht ''Victoria and Albert'', which had proven too large and unwieldy to carry out all her tasks satisfactorily. The contract for her construction was the first for a royal yacht to be given through open competition, the assignment going to the experienced River Clyde shipbuilders A. & J. Inglis. The new ship was named for Queen Alexandra, the consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom.〔Bakka 2003, p. 96〕
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