Nine ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been named HMS Alacrity:
was an 18-gun Cruizer class

Cruizer class brig-sloop

The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging...

 brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811. was a 10-gun Cherokee class

Cherokee class brig-sloop

The Cherokee class was a 10-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts rather than the three masts of ship-sloops...

 brig-sloop launched in 1818 and sold in 1835. was a wooden screw sloop

Screw sloop

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 launched in 1856 and sold in 1864. was the former civilian vessel Ethel, purchased in 1872 and sold in 1882. was a Surprise-class third class cruiser

Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...

, launched in 1885 and sold in 1913.

• HMS Alacrity was a Surprise class third class cruiser launched in 1885 as . She was renamed HMS Alacrity in 1913 and was broken up in 1919. was a yacht
  Yacht
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   and despatch vessel launched as the Margarita, but renamed Seramis in 1913. She was requisitioned as an armed boarding vessel in 1918 and renamed Mlada, and commissioned in 1919 as HMS Alacrity. She was paid off in 1922, sold in 1923 and struck from Lloyd's Register
  Lloyd's Register
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   in 1939. was a Modified Black Swan-class
  Black Swan class sloop
  The Black Swan class and Modified Black Swan class were two classes of sloop of the Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy. Thirteen Black Swans were launched between 1939 and 1943, including four for the Royal Indian Navy; twenty-four Modified Black Swans were launched between 1942 and 1945, including...
  
   sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
   launched in 1944 and broken up in 1956. was a Type 21
  Type 21 frigate
  The Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class frigate was a Royal Navy general-purpose escort designed in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s and that served throughout the 1980s into the 1990s.-History:...
  
   frigate
  Frigate
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   launched in 1974. She served in the Falklands War
  Falklands War
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   and was sold to Pakistan
  Pakistan
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   in 1994 and renamed Badr.