HMS Alacrity (1872)
HMS ''Alacrity'' was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales as the yacht ''Ethel'' that the Royal Navy purchased in 1872.Bastock, pp. 58–59. She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 as a tender for . She was later used for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific and also for hydrographic surveys of Fiji and Australia. On 3 June 1873, ''Alacrity'' ran aground in Vita Bay, Fiji Islands. She was refloated. She was paid off in 1882 and sold to the Colony of New South Wales, which converted her to a powder hulk guardship. ''Alacrity'' was in use as an accommodation hulk at Bantry Bay (New South Wales), Bantry Bay during the Second World War. Citations References

*Bastock, John (1988), ''Ships on the Australia Station'', Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. 1872 ships Ships built in New South Wales Victorian-era naval ships of the United Kingdom Maritime inc ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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