Four
cable-laying ships have been named CS ''Alert'':
* , built 1871 as ''The Lady Carmichael'' for the
Submarine Telegraph Company
The Submarine Telegraph Company was a British company which laid and operated submarine telegraph cables.
Jacob and John Watkins Brett formed the English Channel Submarine Telegraph Company to lay the first cable across the English Channel. An un ...
, taken over by the
GPO GPO may refer to:
Government and politics
* General Post Office, Dublin
* General Post Office, in Britain
* Social Security Government Pension Offset, a provision reducing benefits
* Government Pharmaceutical Organization, a Thai state enterpris ...
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 (disambiguation)
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
* Ale ...
, for other ships named ''Alert''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alert, CS
Ship names