Albatross (disambiguation)

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Albatross is a type of seabird.

The word albatross is also frequently employed to mean "long-term impediment; burden; curse", (see Albatross (metaphor)). Such use is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Albatross or Albatros may also refer to:

Contents 1 Aeronautics 2 Automobiles 3 Gaming 4 Golf 5 Naval ships 6 Music 7 Other

[edit] Aeronautics

• The Albatros the propellor-sustained airship in Jules Verne's novel Robur the Conqueror
• Aero L-39 Albatros and Aero L-59 Super Albatros, a series of Czech jet trainer aircraft
• Albatros Airways, an Albanian airline
• Albatros Flugzeugwerke, a German aircraft manufacturer that built a series of biplane fighters such as the Albatros D.III during World War I
• de Havilland Albatross, a four-engine British transport aircraft in the 1930s
• Gossamer Albatross, a human powered airplane
• HU-16 Albatross, an American amphibious plane
• Beriev A-40 Albatros, a Russian amphibious plane

[edit] Automobiles

• Albatros (automobile), a British automobile
• Albatross (automobile), an American automobile
• Albatros (1912 automobile), a French automobile

[edit] Gaming

• Albatros (joystick), an Italian 1980s joystick
• Albatross (Rolling Thunder), video game character in the Rolling Thunder series

[edit] Golf

• Albatross (golf), a golf term meaning three strokes under par
• Albatross18, a free online golf game from OGplanet

[edit] Naval ships

Albatros

• Albatros (19th century ship), an American-owned ship which brought news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 to W. P. Hunt
• Albatros class fast attack craft, a class of German ships
• Albatros (1899) A Ketch built in 1899, the last to sail commercially in European waters.
• MS Albatros, a cruise liner
• SS Albatros, originally built as RMS Sylvania and named Albatros from 1993 - 2003.

Albatross

• Albatross (ship, built in 1920), a Dutch/German sailing ship that was later used as a training ship
• HMAS Albatross (air station), a Royal Australian Navy base
• HMAS Albatross (seaplane tender), a Royal Australian Navy ship
• NOAA Ship Albatross IV, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel
• USS Albatross (1861), an American Civil War-era ship
• USS Albatross (1882), a 19th century research ship
• USS Albatross (SP-1003), a U.S. Navy launch built in 1912
• USS Albatross (AM-71), A U.S. Navy minesweeper, and the only ship in the Albatross class

[edit] Music

• Albatross (composition), a guitar-based instrumental by Fleetwood Mac
• "Albatross", a song by Corrosion of Conformity
• An Albatross, an American artcore/grindcore band
• "Albatross", a song written and recorded by Public Image Ltd. on their 1979 album Metal Box
• "Albatross", a song written and recorded by Judy Collins on her 1967 album Wildflowers
• "Albatross", an unreleased song by Brave Saint Saturn
• Albatross, the first album by The Classic Crime
• "Albatross", the fifth album by The Standard (band)

[edit] Other

• Albatross, Missouri, United States
• Albatross (horse), a bay horse by Meadow Skipper out of Voodoo Hanover by Dancer Hanover
• Albatross (metaphor), an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Albatross (Monty Python sketch), a sketch by Monty Python
• "Albatross" (TAS episode), an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series
• Albatross Books, a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern mass market paperback books
• The Albatross a 1971 novella by Susan Hill
• Albatross Foundation USA, an environmental group
• Grupo Albatros, a special operations service of the Argentine Naval Prefecture
• Albatros Sea-Air Service, a mode of transport combining ocean and airfreight into one seamless movement.
• Albatross, a US lesbian magazine.
• The Albatross is the nickname of former professional swimmer Michael Gross.