HMS Alert

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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alert (or the variants Alerte and Alaart), whilst another was planned:

• HMS Alert was a 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754.
• HMS Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1777, converted to a sloop in the same year, and captured by the French in 1778.
• HMS Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1778 and captured by the French in 1780.
• HMS Alert was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched at Dover in 1779 and sold in 1792.
• HMS Alert was a 4-gun schooner purchased in 1790 and broken up in 1799.
• HMS Alerte was a 14-gun brig-sloop captured from the French and retaken in 1793.
• HMS Alert was a 16-gun sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1793 and captured by the French in 1794.
• HMS Alert was a 8-gun brig-sloop launched at Bombay in 1795.
• HMS Alert was purchased in 1804, previously the collier Oxford, captured by the USS Essex in 1812.
• HMS Alaart was a 16-gun Danish carronade captured in 1807 and retaken in 1809. She was to be named Cassandra.
• HMS Alert was a Cruizer class brig-sloop, launched in 1813 and sold in 1832.
• HMS Alert was a 8-gun packet-brig launched in 1835 at Rotherhithe and broken up in 1835.
• HMS Alert was a 8-gun brig, previously a slaver captured in 1848 and sold 1850.
• HMS Alert was a wood-screw sloop launched in 1856 at Pembroke Dock. She became a survey ship in 1878, and was donated to the American Research Society in 1884.
• HMS Alert was a sloop launched in 1894 at Sheerness. She was lent to the civil authority at Basra in 1906, and sold to them in 1926 for use as a pilot vessel. She was broken up in 1949.
• Alert was an Algerine class minesweeper, renamed HMS Acute in 1941 before being launched in 1942.
• HMS Alert was a Bay class frigate launched in 1945, originally Dundrum Bay and Loch Scamadale. She was sold in 1971.

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.