CS Alert explained

Four cable-laying ships have been named CS Alert:

• , built 1871 as The Lady Carmichael for the Submarine Telegraph Company, taken over by the GPO in 1890 and renamed Alert, cable equipment removed 1915 and ship sold on.
• , built 1918, sunk by torpedo 1945.^{[1] [2]}
• , 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.^[3]
• , built 1961 for the GPO.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Alert (disambiguation), for other ships named Alert

Notes and References

1. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?1 CS Alert (Kent) [+1945]
2. K. R. Haigh, Cableships and Submarine Cables, p. 207, Adlard Coles, 1968 .
3. Haigh, pp. 210–211
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=d_XOKdeyXrYC&pg=PA716 "Two new British cable ships completed"
5. Haigh, pp. 212–214