Lenin (1916 icebreaker)

Lenin was a Russian icebreaker built in England for the Russian Empire, laid down by Armstrong Whitworth at Low Walker in June 1916 as yard number 905 and intended to be called St. Alexander Nevsky. The naval architect Yevgeny Zamyatin supervised her building, she was launched on 23 December 1916 and completed in June 1917, and she had three screws, two at the stern and one at the bow, driven by steam engines rated at 1,038 nominal horsepower. The Royal Navy requisitioned her in 1917 as HMS Alexander for the North Russia campaign, and she passed to White Russian forces and then to the Bolsheviks. As Lenin she led Otto Sverdrup's 1921 Kara Sea convoy, was trapped in the Laptev Sea ice in 1937 and rescued by Krasin in 1938, served in Arctic convoys in the Second World War, and was scrapped in 1977.