A pair of cast iron 10 inch shells which were presented to the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, by Admiral Lord Alcester as a souvenir of the bombardment of Alexandria on the 11th July 1882. Both shells had fallen on HMS Alexandra, the flagship of the Royal Navy at the bombardment.
One of the shells (RCIN 396.1) was fired into the sleeping cabin of the ship's captain, Captain Hotham, passing through a bed and chest of drawers, eventually landing on a table in the Admiral's dining cabin, close to a portrait of the Princess of Wales.

The second shell (RCIN 396.2), currently on loan to the Imperial War Museum, London, came through the portside of HMS Alexandra and passed through the Torpedo Lieutenant's cabin, striking the combings of the engine room and rolling along the main deck where Mr Harding the Gunner put it in a tub of water; for his actions, Mr Harding received the Victoria Cross.