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.CS Alert (Kent) [+1945] at Wreck Site, retrieved 6 January 2019K. R. Haigh, Cableships and Submarine Cables, p. 207, Adlard Coles, 1968 . , 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.Haigh, pp. 210–211 , built 1961 for the GPO."Two new British cable ships completed", New Scientist, No. 240, p. 716, 22 June 1961.Haigh, pp. 212–214
See also Alert (disambiguation), for other ships named Alert
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