page_title: HMS Alert (1856)
section_title: Disposal and remains
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Alert (1856) / Disposal and remains
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Roue de barre et Figure de proue du navire l'Alert. Figure de proue du navire l'Alert, en bois polychrome, représentant le torse et la tête d'une femme, possiblement Lady Catherine Allen de Cresselly. Cette roue de barre, en noyer noir américain, est garnie sur sa circonférence de dix manetons ou poignées et fixée en son centre sur un axe central cerclé de métal, autour duquel s'enroulaient les drosses du gouvernail d'un grand voilier ou d'un bateau à vapeur. Le tour de la roue est ornementé sur une face d'une série de motifs animaliers et floraux et de l'autre de motifs géométriques et cosmographiques en laiton incrustés interprétant les quatre points cardinaux et l'étoile du navigateur. Les dix rayons de la roue sont tournés en balustre et sculptés de fleurs d'acanthe. Les assemblages qui composent l'ensemble de cette roue de barre sont à queue d'aronde et tenon et mortaise. Motif: étoile à huit pointes, sur le pourtour intérieur et extérieur de la roue, la forme d'un cordage est sculpté.
context_page_description: HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name, and was noted for her Arctic exploration work; in 1876 she reached a record latitude of 82° North. Alert briefly served with the US Navy, and ended her career with the Canadian Marine Service as a lighthouse tender and buoy ship.
context_section_description: CGS Alert was laid up in November 1894 and sold, the bill of exchange being forwarded to the Admiralty, since she was still officially on loan, the total sum being 814 pounds, 2 shillings and 7 pence. The ship was probably broken up at an undisclosed location.
  The figurehead, wheel and other remains are part of the Musée de la civilisation's collections in Quebec City.
caption: Alert's figurehead and wheel exhibited at Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City
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