• HMS Alert (or the variants Alerte and Alaart), while another was planned: HMS Alert (1753), an 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754. HMS Alert (1777)...
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    Royal Navy vessel HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan in 1875–1876. All Alert residents are...
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    HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of...
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  • Stromness Bay, South Georgia Alert Cove, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia CS Alert, the name of several cable-laying ships HMS Alert, the name of several ships...
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    name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. Alert, then in Canada's...
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  • HMS Alert was the collier Oxford, launched at Howdon in 1803 that the Royal Navy purchased in 1804 and renamed HMS Alert. She had a mundane career in the...
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    HMS Alert a Bay-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally laid down as the Loch-class vessel Loch Scamdale, and re-ordered as Dundrum Bay while...
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    HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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    Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in the ships HMS Alert and HMS Discovery. (London, 1878); translated into French (Paris, 1877). Several...
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    A naval engagement between USS Essex and HMS Alert took place on 13 August 1812, in which the light frigate, USS Essex, 32 (commanded by Capt. David Porter...
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  • HMS Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1777 that was converted to a sloop in the same year. On 19 September 1777, during the American War...
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    commanded the converted sloop HMS Alert, and with him went Discovery, commanded by Captain Henry Frederick Stephenson. HMS Valorous carried extra stores...
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    HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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    explored and large amounts of scientific data were collected. Two ships, HMS Alert and HMS Discovery—captained by Henry Frederick Stephenson—sailed from Portsmouth...
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  • HMS Alert was an 18-gun cutter of the Royal Navy. She took part in the War of American Independence, where she was captured by the French Navy and brought...
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    HMS Alert was launched in 1793 for the Royal Navy. In May 1794 the French Navy captured her and took her into service as Alerte. A few months later the...
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    Napoleonic Wars. He was first captain of HMS Dreadnought, between 1801 and 1802. Previously, he had commanded Alert (1781), Europa (1786), and Formidable...
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    them as a prize. On 13 August she encountered and captured the sloop HMS Alert after an engagement. By September, when she returned to New York, Essex...
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    expeditions. Later, he was second-in-command to Sir John Franklin and captain of HMS Terror during the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage,...
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    Cdr. Winfield Scott Schley. While four vessels—USS Bear, USS Thetis, HMS Alert, and Loch Garry—made it to Greely's camp on June 22, only seven men had...
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    uk". Retrieved 30 August 2008. "Frank Waterfield's HMS Alert pages". Retrieved 1 September 2008. "HMS Torch at Naval Database website". Retrieved 1 September...
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  • captain of HMS Plumper, circa 1860, in honour of William Alfred Rombulow Pearse of the Royal Navy, who had been commander of HMS Alert. The island is...
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  • transferred to the Coastguard in 1831. HMS Acute (J106) was an Algerine-class minesweeper ordered as HMS Alert but renamed in 1941 and launched in 1942...
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    HMS Challenger was a Pearl-class corvette of the Royal Navy launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She served the flagship of the Australia...
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    1845 joined the Royal Navy aboard HMS Canopus, an old battleship captured from the French. Following a posting to HMS Havannah on the Australian station...
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    1845, commanding HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. There were four medical officers: Dr. Stephen Stanley and surgeon Harry Goodsir on HMS Erebus, and Dr. John...
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    HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...
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    Capt. Henry H. Caldwell, USN, Commanding Destroyer USS Brownson. Cdr. H.M.S. Gimber, USN, Commanding Tanker USS Canisteo. Capt. Edward K. Walker, USN...
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    Trafalgar in 1805 aboard HMS Bellerophon. During the War of 1812 against the United States, Franklin, now a lieutenant, served aboard HMS Bedford and was wounded...
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    Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections...
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