CS Alert (1890)
CS ''Alert'', or HMTS ''Alert'', was a cable-laying ship that had a significant role in World War I. She was launched in 1871 for the Submarine Telegraph Company with the name ''The Lady Carmichael''. In 1890 the ship was acquired by the General Post Office (GPO) as part of the nationalisation of the British telegraph network. At the outbreak of World War I, ''Alert'' was immediately dispatched to cut German telegraph cables in the English Channel, seriously damaging Germany's ability to securely communicate with the rest of the world. ''Alert'' was taken out of service as a cable ship in 1915 but her cable-handling gear was retained for fitting on her replacement. After the war, she worked as a merchant ship under various names, finally being wrecked at Redcar under the name ''Norham'' in 1932. Construction and first cable work The ship was built by A. McMillan and Son of Dumbarton for the Submarine Telegraph Company, who had previously laid the first submarine cab ...
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Wilkinson
Wilkinson may refer to: People * Wilkinson (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places in the United States * Wilkinson, Illinois * Wilkinson, Indiana, a town in Hancock County * Wilkinson, Minnesota * Wilkinson, Mississippi * Wilkinson, West Virginia * Wilkinson, Wisconsin, a town in Rusk County * Wilkinson County, Georgia * Wilkinson County, Mississippi * Wilkinson Heights, South Carolina * Wilkinson Lake, a lake in Minnesota * Wilkinson Station, Pantego, North Carolina * Wilkinson Township, Minnesota Electronics * analog-to-digital converter, Wilkinson analog-to-digital converter, a low-power method of converting analog signals to digital with a high degree of linearity * Wilkinson power divider, an RF signal splitter with special properties Enterprises * Wilko (retailer), Wilko (formerly known as Wilkinson), a British do it yourself (DIY) and household goods store * Wilkinson Sword, a manufacturer of razor blades, and formerly of swords and ...
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CS Alert Sketch
CS, C-S, C.S., Cs, cs, or cs. may refer to: Job titles * Chief Secretary (Hong Kong) * Chief superintendent, a rank in the British and several other police forces * Company secretary, a senior position in a private sector company or public sector organisation * Culinary Specialist, a US Navy occupational rating Language * Czech language (ISO 639-1 language code) * Hungarian cs, a digraph in the Hungarian alphabet Organizations * Christian Social Party (Austria), a major conservative political party in the Cisleithania, part of Austria-Hungary, and in the First Republic of Austria * Citizens (Spanish political party), a post-nationalist political party in Spain * Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, a Catholic religious congregation, also called ''Scalabrinians'' * Confederate States of America, an unrecognized confederation of secessionist North American slave states existing from 1861 to 1865 Companies * Colorado and Southern Railway, a railroad company in the ...
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CS Monarch (1916)
Five cable-laying ships have been named CS ''Monarch'', or, after the nationalisation of British telegraph companies, HMTS ''Monarch'': * , a paddle steamer built in 1830, used as a cable ship by Electric Telegraph Company The Electric Telegraph Company (ETC) was a British telegraph company founded in 1846 by William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo. It was the world's first public telegraph company. The equipment used was the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, ... from 1853 onwards. * , built in 1883 for the Post Office. Sunk 1915 off Folkestone in World War I. * , built in 1916 as a replacement for but named ''Monarch'' after the 1915 sinking. Badly damaged by friendly fire from an American ship during the Normandy landings (Monarch was tasked with providing a telephone connection to France). Sunk by U-boat off Folkestone 16 April 1945 after repairing a cable to the Netherlands. * , launched in 1945 and completed in 1946 she was renamed CS ''Sentinel'' in 1970 and br ...
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CS Alert (1918)
Four cable-laying ships have been named CS ''Alert'': * , built 1871 as ''The Lady Carmichael'' for the Submarine Telegraph Company, taken over by the GPO in 1890 and renamed ''Alert'', cable equipment removed 1915 and ship sold on. * , built 1918, sunk by torpedo 1945. * , built 1915 as an oil tanker named ''Nordenay'', converted to a cable ship for the German navy 1922, given to the GPO as war reparations in 1945 and renamed ''Alert'', scrapped 1960. * , built 1961 for the GPO.Haigh, pp. 212–214 See also * Alert (other) Alert or ALERT may refer to: * Alertness, the state of active attention by high sensory awareness. Places * Alert, Iran * Alert, Indiana, U.S. * Alert, North Carolina, U.S. * Alert, Ohio, U.S. * Alert, Nunavut, Canada ** Alert Airport * ..., for other ships named ''Alert'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alert, CS Ship names ...
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Headrick
Headrick may refer to: * Sherrill Headrick (1937–2008), American football player * Headrick, Oklahoma Headrick is a town in Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 94 at the 2010 census, down from 130 in 2000. Geography Headrick is located in eastern Jackson County south of U.S. Route 62 and east of Altus, the county seat ...

CS Telconia
CS ''Telconia'' was a British cable ship used in the early 20th century to lay and repair submarine communications cables. She was built in 1909 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (a subsidiary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company) and remained in service until late 1934. ''Telconia'' is often incorrectly credited with playing a role in cutting German cables in August 1914. In her book ''The Zimmermann Telegram'', American historian Barbara Tuchman incorrectly asserted this based on an interview with a retired Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ... officer decades later. Scholars have since determined that in fact it was the British General Post Office ship CS ''Alert'' that carried out these attacks. Th ...
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Grapple (tool)
A grapple is a hook or claw used to catch or hold something. A ship's anchor is a type of grapple, especially the "grapnel" anchor. A throwing grapple (or "grappling hook") is a multi-pronged hook that is tied to a rope and thrown to catch a grip, as on a parapet or branch of a tree. It may also be used in a boat to "drag" the bottom of a waterway to hook debris or to find missing objects. In logging and other engineering vehicles, a grapple is a hydraulically powered claw with two or more opposing levers that pinch a log or other materials, usually to lift or drag them. The logging grapple used in swing yarding is not moved by hydraulics but by cables. To open and close the tongs of the grapple, two cables are used. One is tensioned and the other is slacked off to move the tongs. A third cable goes back to the tail hold then to the yarder. This third cable is used to pull the grapple out into the setting and to create tension for lifting the grapple in the air. A grap ...
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Corera
Corera is a village and municipality in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i .... The municipality covers an area of and as of 2011 had a population of 278 people. References Populated places in La Rioja (Spain) {{LaRiojaES-geo-stub ...
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Winkler
Winkler may refer to: * Winkler (surname), people with the surname ''Winkler'' or ''Winckler'' * Winkler scale, also known as the heat summation scale for classifying climates * Winkler (crater), a crater on the Moon * 6473 Winkler, an asteroid * Winkler method, a test to determine dissolved oxygen concentration in water * Winkler vine, an example of large-vine grape culture * ''Winkler'' (novel), by Giles Coren * Winkler + Dünnebier, German machine building company ; Places * Winkler, Manitoba, a Canadian city * Winkler, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Winkler, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Winkler County, Texas Winkler County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 7,791. Its county seat is Kermit. The county was created in 1887 and organized in 1910. It is named for Clinton McKamy Winkler, a colonel in the ...