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Four [[cable layer|cable-laying ships]] have been named '''CS ''Alert''''':
* {{ship|CS|Alert|1890}}, built 1871 as ''The Lady Carmichael'' for the [[Submarine Telegraph Company]], taken over by the [[General Post Office|GPO]] in 1890 and renamed ''Alert'', cable equipment removed 1915 and ship sold on.
* {{ship|CS|Alert|1918}}, built 1918, sunk by torpedo 1945.<ref>[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1 CS Alert (Kent) &#91;+1945&#93;] at ''Wreck Site'', retrieved 6 January 2019</ref><ref>K. R. Haigh, ''Cableships and Submarine Cables'', p. 207, Adlard Coles, 1968 {{oclc|497380538}}.</ref>
* {{ship|CS|Alert|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.<ref>Haigh, pp. 210–211</ref>
* {{ship|CS|Alert|1961}}, built 1961 for the GPO.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d_XOKdeyXrYC&pg=PA716 "Two new British cable ships completed"], ''New Scientist'', No. 240, p. 716, 22 June 1961.</ref><ref>Haigh, pp. 212–214</ref>

==See also==
* [[Alert (disambiguation)]], for other ships named ''Alert''

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