Dates: 1945 - 1971
H.M.S. Alert
H.M.S. Alert (K647) was a British Bay Class anti-aircraft frigate of 1600 tons displacement.
She was originally laid down as the Loch-class vessel Loch Scamdale, and re-ordered as Dundrum Bay while building, she was completed as Alert, an Admiralty Yacht for command and gunboat diplomacy duties in the Mediterranean and Far Eastern stations and launched in 1945.
Alert carried a crew of 157 and had a top speed of 19.5 knots. Armaments consisted of two 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in a pair; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; and one Hedgehog multiple spigot mortar.
She was sold in 1971.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name H.M.S. Alert (or the variants Alerte and Alaart).
H.M.S. Alert was a 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754.
H.M.S. 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.
H.M.S. Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1778 and captured by the French in 1780.
H.M.S. Alert was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched at Dover in 1779 and sold in 1792.
H.M.S. Alert was a 4-gun schooner purchased in 1790 and broken up in 1799.
H.M.S. Alerte was a 14-gun brig-sloop captured from the French and retaken in 1793.
H.M.S. Alert was a 16-gun sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1793 and captured by the French in 1794.
H.M.S. Alert was a 8-gun brig-sloop launched at Bombay in 1795.
H.M.S. Alert was purchased in 1804, previously the collier Oxford, captured by the USS Essex in 1812.
H.M.S. Alaart was a 16-gun Danish carronade captured in 1807 and retaken in 1809. She was to be named Cassandra.
H.M.S. Alert was a Cruizer class brig-sloop, launched in 1813 and sold in 1832.
H.M.S. Alert was a 8-gun packet-brig launched in 1835 at Rotherhithe and broken up in 1835.
H.M.S. Alert was a 8-gun brig, previously a slaver captured in 1848 and sold 1850.
H.M.S. 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.
H.M.S. 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 H.M.S. Acute in 1941 before being launched in 1942.
H.M.S. Alert was a Bay class frigate launched in 1945, originally Dundrum Bay and Loch Scamadale. She was sold in 1971.
