HMS Alacrity

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Alacrity":

*HMS|Alacrity|1806|6 was an 18-gun "Cruizer" class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811.
*HMS|Alacrity|1818|6 was a 10-gun "Cherokee" class brig-sloop launched in 1818 and sold in 1835.
*HMS|Alacrity|1856|6 was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1856 and sold in 1864.
*HMS|Alacrity|1872|6 was the former civilian vessel "Ethel", purchased in 1872 and sold in 1882.
*HMS|Alacrity|1885|6 was a "Surprise"-class third class cruiser, launched in 1885 and sold in 1913.
*HMS|Alacrity|1919|6 was a yacht 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 in 1939.
*HMS "Alacrity" was a "Surprise" class third class cruiser launched in 1885 as HMS|Surprise|1885|6. She was renamed HMS "Alacrity" in 1913 and was broken up in 1919.
*HMS|Alacrity|U60|6 was a Modified "Black Swan"-class sloop launched in 1944 and broken up in 1956.
*HMS|Alacrity|F174|6 was a Type 21 frigate launched in 1974. She served in the Falklands War and was sold to Pakistan in 1994 and renamed "Badr".