HMS Alarm

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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Alarm, whilst another was planned but later cancelled:

  • HMS Alarm (1758) was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate, launched in 1758. She was the first Royal Navy ship to have a fully copper sheathed hull. She was broken up in 1812.
  • was a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1780.
  • HM galley Alarm was a galley purchased in 1777 and scuttled to avoid capture in July 1778.
  • was a 24-gun sixth rate captured from the Dutch in 1799, and renamed Helder and then Heldin in 1800 and sold in 1802.
  • HMS Alarm (1810) was a lugger of eight carronades transferred from Customs in 1810 and returned to Customs in 1812 or 1813.
  • HMS Alarm was to be a 28-gun sixth rate laid down in 1832 and cancelled later that year.
  • was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1845. She was converted into a coal hulk in 1860 and sold in 1904.
  • was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat, launched in 1892 and sold in 1907.[1]
  • HMS Alarm (1910) was an Acorn-class destroyer, launched in 1910 and sold in 1921.[2]
  • was the former Saint-class naval tug Saint Ewe built in 1919 and hired from the Iraqi Government in 1940 as a minesweeper; renamed Alarm II in 1942 and returned in 1946.[3]
  • was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1942, damaged by German aircraft in 1943, and declared a constructive total loss. She was scrapped in 1944.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ [1] [2]
  2. ^ "Acorn Class".
  3. ^ Colledge, J J (1970). Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index, Vol.2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. pp. 17, 314.
  4. ^ [3] [4]
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