Английская Википедия:HMS Alacrity (1872)
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS 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.[1]
She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 as a tender for Шаблон:HMS. She was later used for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific and also for hydrographic surveys of Fiji and Australia.[1][2] On 3 June 1873, Alacrity ran aground in Vita Bay, Fiji Islands. She was refloated.[3] She was paid off in 1882 and sold to the Colony of New South Wales, which converted her to a powder hulk guardship.[1]
Alacrity was in use as an accommodation hulk at Bantry Bay during the Second World War.
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- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Bastock, pp. 58–59.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
