HMS Alert

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 an "Alert" class 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.

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