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ISBN-10: 1156339340
ISBN-13: 9781156339343
Edition: 2010
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Bulldog class survey vessel, Echo class survey ship (1957), Echo class survey ship (2002), HMS Aid (1809), HMS Alert (1856), HMS Beagle (A319), HMS Blossom (1806), HMS Bulldog (A317), HMS Challenger (1931), HMS Chatham (1788), HMS Cook (K638), HMS Dalrymple (K427), HMS Dampier (K611), HMS Daring (1874), HMS Discovery (1874), HMS Echo (H87), HMS Egeria (1873), HMS Endurance (1967), HMS Endurance (A171), HMS Enterprise (A71), HMS Enterprise (H88), HMS Fantome (1901), HMS Fawn (A325), HMS Fly (1831), HMS Fox (A320), HMS Franklin (J84), HMS Gannet… (1878), HMS Gleaner (H86), HMS Herald (1822), HMS Hyacinth (1829), HMS Hydra (1838), HMS Investigator (1798), HMS Investigator (1811), HMS Investigator (1823), HMS Investigator (1848), HMS Investigator (1861), HMS Leven (1813), HMS Meda (1880), HMS Plumper (1848), HMS Protector (A146), HMS Rambler (1880), HMS Rattlesnake (1822), HMS Reliance (1793), HMS Roebuck (H130), HMS Scott (H131), HMS Sealark (1903), HMS Stork (L81), HMS Vidal, HMS Waterwitch (1892), List of survey vessels of the Royal Navy, MV Polarbjorn. Excerpt: After 1874: 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 the Royal Navy to bear the name (or a variant of it), and was noted for her Arctic exploration work; in 1876 she reached a record latitude of 82 N. Briefly served with the United States Navy, the ship ended her career with the Canadian Marine Service as a lighthouse tender and buoy ship. The wooden sloops of the Cruizer class were designed under the direction of Lord John Hay, and after his "Committee of Reference" was disbanded, their construction was supervised by the new Surveyor of the Navy, Sir Baldwin Walker. Ordered together with her sister-ship Falcon on 2 April 1853, she was laid down at the Royal Dockyard, Pembroke in January 1855. She was fitted at Chatham with a two-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine, which was supplied by Ravenhill & Salkeld at a cost of 6,052 and generated an indicated horsepower of 383 hp (286 kW); driving a single screw, this gave a maximum speed of 8.8 knots (16.3 km/h). The class was given a Barque-rig sail plan. All the ships of the class were provided with one 32-pounder (56cwt) long gun on a pivot mount and sixteen 32-pounder (32cwt) carriage guns in a broadside arrangement. When converted for Arctic exploration in 1874, her armament was reduced to a token outfit of four Armstrong breech-loaders. Alert spent the first 11 years of her life on the Pacific Station, based at Esquimalt at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada. Alert Bay, British Columbia is named after the ship, and nearby Pearse Island, at the north entrance to Johnstone Strait, is named after Commander William Alfred Rumbulow Pearse, her commanding officer. During this period she returned to Plymouth between October 1861 and May 1863 for a refit. This was the work for which her class had been designed the policing of Britain's far-flung maritime empire. A photograph exists of Alert