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| Name | Alacrity (1872) | Explanation | |
| Type | Schooner | ||
| Acquired | 1872 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 85 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 1 | ||
| Fate | 1882 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | ex Ethel | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 30 April 1874 | Owing to the difficulties and dangers of navigation among the islands in the South Pacific, the following steam schooners [actually sailing schooners] belonging to the Royal Navy have been added to the fleet on the Australian station as tenders to the Pearl, Commodore J.G. Goodenough, the flagship on that station, for special service in those waters: - The Alacrity, Lieut-Commanding F.W. Saunders; the Beagle, Lieut.-Commanding F.S. Rendell; the Conflict, Lieut.-Commanding A.R. Mansell; the Renard, Lieut.-Commanding T. Suckling; and the Sandfly, Lieut.-Commanding W.B. Nowell. They are constructed of a light draught of water to allow of their cruising in and out among the 200 islands in the South Pacific which form a large portion of the Australian command. | ||
| Tu 11 April 1876 | Australia.— Letters from Commodore Hoskins, in the Pearl at Sydney, up to the 16th of February. The Nymphe was at Levuka, Fiji, on the 14th of January. The Barracouta daily expected to rejoin the broad pendant at Sydney. The Sapphire arrived at Sydney on the 12th of February. The Sappho expected at Sydney about the 20th of February. The Alacrity would leave Sydney about the 10th of March for Fiji to re-commence surveying. The Sandfly left Sydney on the 26th of January for Noumea, New Caledonia, and Tucopia in the New Hebrides, to visit the Santa Cruz group and cruise among the Solomon islands. The Beagle left Sydney on the 26th of January for Norfolk Island, New Hebrides, and Santa Cruz group. The Renard cruising between Auckland and Wellington in place of the Sappho, temporarily withdrawn. The Conflict left Port Darwin on the 29th of January for Nichol Bay. The St. Osyth would leave Sydney on the 26th of February for England, with such of the crews of the Beagle and the Sandfly as were not taken on board Her Majesty's ship Dido. | ||
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