Four
cable-laying ships have been named CS ''Alert'':
* , built 1871 as ''The Lady Carmichael'' for the
Submarine Telegraph Company, taken over by the
GPO in 1890 and renamed ''Alert'', cable equipment removed 1915 and ship sold on.
* , built 1918, sunk by torpedo 1945.
* , built 1915 as an oil tanker named ''Nordenay'', converted to a cable ship for the German navy 1922, given to the GPO as war reparations in 1945 and renamed ''Alert'', scrapped 1960.
* , built 1961 for the GPO.
[Haigh, pp. 212–214]
See also
*
Alert (disambiguation), for other ships named ''Alert''
References
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Ship names