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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Alert'' (or the variants ''Alerte'' and ''Alaart''), while another was planned: * , an 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754. * , a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1777, converted to a sloop in the same year, and captured in the Channel by the ''Junon'' in 1778;〔Hepper (1994), p.52.〕 foundered December 1779 off the coast of America.〔Roche (2005)〕 French records show her serving as ''Alerte'', a cutter of fourteen 4-pounder guns and valued as a prize at Lt 32,289.〔Demerliac (1996), p.87, #572.〕 * , a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1778 and captured by the French ship ''Diligente'' in September 1780 in the Bay of Biscay. The prize was valued at Lt52,405. In French service she was armed with six 8-pounder guns and twelve 18-pounder howitzers.〔Demerliac (1996), p.90, #600.〕 recaptured her in North American waters on 7 December 1781,〔 after a strong resistance.〔 * , a 14-gun brig-sloop launched at Dover in 1779 and sold 1792. * , a 4-gun schooner purchased in 1790, wrecked in 1791,〔Hepper (1994), p.74.〕 but possibly salved and broken up in 1799.〔Winfield (2008), p.355.〕 * , a 16-gun sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1794 and captured by the French ''Unité'' May off the coast of Ireland;〔Hepper (1994), p.76.〕 wrecked later that year in the Bay of Audierne after action with and .〔''Fonds Marine'', p.84.〕 * , an 8-gun brig-sloop launched at Bombay in 1795. * HMS ''Alerte'', a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1787, captured from the French in 1793, retaken by the French after being burnt to the waterline that same year and rebuilt by them, captured by in 1799, renamed HMS ''Minorca'' and sold in 1802. * , previously the collier ''Oxford'', purchased in 1804 and captured by the USS ''Essex'' in 1812; remained in US service until 1829. * HMS ''Allart'' (1807) (or ''Alaart''), a 16-gun Danish sloop captured in 1807 and retaken by the Danes in 1809.〔Hepper (1994), p.130.〕 She was to be named ''Cassandra''. * , a ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop, launched in 1813 and sold in 1832. * , an 8-gun packet-brig launched in 1835 at Rotherhithe and broken up in 1835. * , an 8-gun brig, previously a slaver, captured in 1848 and sold 1850. * , a wooden ''Cruizer''-class screw sloop launched in 1856 at Pembroke Dock. She was converted for Arctic exploration in 1874, reached 82°N in the expedition of 1876, worked as a survey vessel, and was loaned to the US Navy and the Canadian Government. She was laid up in 1884 and sold. * , 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 , renamed in 1941 before being launched in 1942. * , a launched in 1945, originally ''Dundrum Bay'' and ''Loch Scamadale''. She was sold in 1971. In addition, the Royal Navy used several hired armed vessels with the name ''Alert'', including several cutters ''Alert'' and a lugger ''Alert''. ==Citations== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Alert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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