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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 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 ...
, a proposed World War II Allied occupation of the Azores in 1943


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* Alacrity 19, a British trailerable sailboat designed by Peter Stevenson *
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