An item reported that the Soviet icebreaker Alexander (1) handed over on 28 July to the Soviet representatives at Rosyth, Scotland was in the meantime renamed Lenin and departed Leith on 4 August bound for Murmansk. There she was to be added to the expedition lead by the Norwegian captain Otto Sverdrup (2) earlier assisting Nansen (3) on his polar expedition. The new expedition was via the Kara Sea to the Yenisei, Obi and Lena rivers.
Notes
1. Laid down by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England with yard number A?W 905 in June 1916 fr the Russian Empire, launched on 23 December 1916, completed in June 1917, commissioned the British Royal Navy as HMS Alexander in September 1917, handed over to the White Russian forces in 1919, same year acquired by the Soviet Union, renamed Lenin, decommissioned in 1968 and broken up in 1977.
2. Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854 Bindal, Norway-25 November 1930 Sandvika near Oslo, Norway)
3. Fridtjof Wedel-Jarisberg Nansen (10 October 1861 Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway-13 May 1930 Polhøgda, Lysaker, Norway).
Source
The National Archives CAB-24-127-7. No.31. Weekly appreciation of matters of naval interest for the week ended 6 August 1921
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