Nine ships of the

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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 A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's ''screws'' (propel ...

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

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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

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launched in 1944 and broken up in 1956. * was a

Type 21 frigate The Type 21 frigate, or ''Amazon''-class frigate, was a British Royal Navy general-purpose escort that was designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s. Development In the mid-1960s, the Royal Na ...

launched in 1974. She served in the

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and was sold to

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in 1994 and renamed ''Badr''.

Battle honours

Ships named ''Alacrity'' have earned the following

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: * China, 1900 *

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, 1950−52 *

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubou ...

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