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Alacrity may refer to: * ''Alacrity'' (ship), various ships, including: ** ''Alacrity'' (1813 ship), a British merchant ship ** SS ''Alacrity'' (1893), a French tugboat used by the Royal Australian Navy during World War I * HMS ''Alacrity'', various Royal Navy ships * USS ''Alacrity'', several US Navy ships * Operation Alacrity, a proposed World War II Allied occupation of the Azores in 1943 See also * Alacrity 19, a British trailerable sailboat designed by Peter Stevenson * Diligence * Enthusiasm * Speed In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alacrity (ship)
Several ships have been named ''Alacrity'': * was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne. New owners transferred her registry to London and she then spent much of her career sailing between Britain and the Cape of Good Hope (CGH, or the Cape), sometimes going on to India. She made at least one voyage to New South Wales. New owners in 1829 returned her registry to Newcastle. She was wrecked in 1830. * See also * – one of nine ships of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ... * – one of three ships of the US Navy {{shipindex Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alacrity (1813 Ship)
''Alacrity'' was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1814. New owners transferred her registry to London and she then spent much of her career sailing between Britain and the Cape of Good Hope (CGH, or the Cape), sometimes going on to India. She made at least one voyage to New South Wales. One voyage resulted in a lawsuit, that her owners lost, for delayed arrival with a cargo. New owners in 1829 returned her registry to Newcastle. She was wrecked in 1830. Career ''Alacrity'' first appeared in ''Lloyd's Register'' (''LR'') in 1813, but with no information on her master or owner. She was registered at London on 4 July 1814. ''Lloyd's Register'' for 1815 listed her master as Finlay, her owner as Granger, and her trade London–CGH. ''Lloyd's Register'' and the ''Register of Shipping'' (''RS'') were only as accurate as shipowners chose to keep them. In the case of ''Alacrity'' both registers gave her trade as London–the Cape, with neither updating the information to include voyages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Alacrity (1893)
SS ''Alacrity'' was a tug built in Graville, France in 1893 as ''Jean Bart'' and was operated by the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce. She was sold in 1902 to Howard Smith and renamed ''Alacrity'' for tug service in Port Phillip, Australia. During the First World War, she was purchased by the Royal Australian Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel, inspection vessel, and minesweeper based at Fremantle. She was never commissioned. After being sold in 1925, she was slated for breaking up and was moored in Jervoise Bay, Western Australia, until a fierce gale in Cockburn Sound Cockburn Sound ( Nyungar Aboriginal Australian name: Derbal Nara) is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about 25 km to Point Peron n ... wrecked her in 1931. Notes References *Wilson, Michael; Royal Australian Navy 21st Century Warships, Naval auxiliaries 1911 to 1999 including Defence Maritime Serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Alacrity
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Alacrity'': * was an 18-gun launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811. * was a 10-gun brig-sloop launched in 1818 and sold in 1835. * was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1856 and sold in 1864. * was the former civilian vessel ''Ethel'', purchased in 1872 and sold in 1882. * was a third class cruiser, launched in 1885 and sold in 1913. *the original third class cruiser launched in 1885 was renamed HMS ''Alacrity'' in 1913 and sold in 1919. * was a yacht and despatch vessel launched as ''Margarita'' in 1900, renamed ''Semiramis'' in 1910 and ''Mlada'' in 1913. She was requisitioned in 1918 and commissioned in 1919 as HMS ''Alacrity''. She was paid off in 1922, sold in 1923 and broken up in 1936. * was a Modified ''Black Swan''-class sloop launched in 1944 and broken up in 1956. * was a Type 21 frigate launched in 1974. She served in the Falklands War and was sold to Pakistan in 1994 and renamed ''Badr''. Battle hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Alacrity
Three ships of the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ... have been named ''Alacrity''. * * * Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alacrity, USS United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Alacrity
Operation Alacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases. The islands were of enormous strategic value in the defeat of the German U-boats. Portugal, too weak to defend the Azores, or its large colonial empire, or even its homeland, tried to stay neutral in the war. Dictator Salazar was especially worried about a possible German invasion through Spain and did not want to provoke Hitler nor did he want to give Spain an excuse to side with the Axis and invade Portugal due to the strategic importance of the Canary Islands. Great Britain and the United States devised plans to set up air bases regardless of Portugal's disapproval. The plans were never put into operation. Instead in 1943 Britain requested, and Portugal agreed, to allow Britain to set up bases there. Operation Alacrity was preceded by War Plan Gray. Overview Since their colonization in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alacrity 19
The Alacrity 19 is a British trailerable sailboat that was designed by Peter Stevenson as a cruiser and first built in 1960.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 19. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. The Alacrity 19 is a fibreglass development of the wooden Alacrity 18. The design was developed into the Vivacity 20 in 1963. Production The design was built by Hurley Marine and later Russell Marine in the United Kingdom, with more than 700 built, but it is now out of production. The boat was also imported into the United States by Wells Yachts. Design The Alacrity 19 is a recreational keelboat, initially built of wood and later of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed dual fin keels. It displaces and carries of iron ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keels. It is normally fitted with a small outboard mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diligence
Diligence—carefulness and persistent effort or work—is one of the seven heavenly virtues. It is indicative of a work ethic, the belief that work is good in itself. In students Bernard et al. suggest that diligence in students is defined as the effort they put towards balanced and holistic development in mental, physical, social and spiritual dimensions. They find that it correlates with academic performance, especially with younger students, and that the support of parents and educators encourages students to be diligent. Other factors that encourage student diligence include motivation, discipline, concentration, responsibility and devotedness. In Buddhism The last words of the Buddha were, "Strive on with diligence." Diligence is an integral part of all Buddhist teaching, and considered the fourth of the ''pāramitā''. In Mahayana tradition, diligence is the third ''pāramitā'' and the first said to lead to liberation, and it is said that its practice brings a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enthusiasm
In modern usage, enthusiasm refers to intense enjoyment, interest, or approval expressed by a person. The term is related to playfulness, inventiveness, optimism and high energy. The word was originally used to refer to a person possessed by God, or someone who exhibited intense piety. Historical usage The word ''enthusiasm'' originates from the Greek ἐνθουσιασμός from ἐν (en, “in”) and θεός (theós, “god”) and οὐσία (ousía, “essence”), meaning "inspired by god's essence". Applied by the Greeks to manifestations of divine possession, by Apollo (as in the case of the Pythia), or by Dionysus (as in the case of the Bacchantes and Maenads), the term enthusiasm was also used in a transferred or figurative sense. Socrates taught that the inspiration of poets is a form of enthusiasm. The term was confined to a belief in religious inspiration, or to intense religious fervor or emotion. From this, a Syrian sect of the fourth century was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
