HMS Alert

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Ten ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Alert .

  • The first HMS Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1777 and taken by the French frigate Junon in 1778 .
  • The second HMS Alert was a brigantine with 14 cannons, which was launched in 1779 and whose whereabouts cannot be determined.
  • The third HMS Alert was a sloop launched in 1793 and taken by the French frigate Unité in 1794 .
  • The fourth HMS Alert was originally the merchant ship Oxford . It was acquired by the Royal Navy in 1804 and converted into an 18-cannon sloop. She was taken by the American frigate USS Essex in 1812 .
  • The fifth HMS Alert was an 18-gun sloop that was launched in 1813 and sold in 1832.
  • The sixth HMS Alert was a brigantine with 10 cannons, which was launched in 1833 and whose whereabouts cannot be determined.
  • The seventh HMS Alert was a screw- drive sloop launched in 1857 in two British polar expeditions (including George Nares' hugely successful expedition in the Canadian Arctic archipelago that culminated in the first passage of the Nares Strait ) in 1884 for the United States a search expedition was made available and was used in the Canadian Coast Guard from 1885. It was auctioned for scrapping in 1895. The northernmost permanently inhabited settlement on earth, Alert on Ellesmere Island , is named after the ship.
  • The eighth HMS Alert was a sloop launched in 1894 and sold in 1926,
  • The ninth HMS Alert was a frigate launched in 1945 under the name HMS Dundrum Bay . In 1946 she was converted into a courier ship and renamed HMS Alert . It was scrapped in 1971.
  • The tenth HMS Alert was a fleet tender that was launched in 1968 under the name HMS Loyal Governor (A510) for the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and was taken over by the Royal Navy in 1974 and renamed HMS Alert . In 1986 it was transferred to the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service as Lydford (A251) and was privately owned in 1996.

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