HMAS Albatross (seaplane tender)
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.jpg/300px-Albatross_(AWM_300122).jpg) HMAS Albatross with one of her aircraft overhead |
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| Career (Australia) |  |
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| Builder: | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | April 1926 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1928 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 April 1933 |
| Struck: | 1938 |
| Motto: | "Usque Ad Nubes Prolem Emitto" |
| Fate: | Traded to Royal Navy as part payment for HMAS Hobart |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Seaplane Tender |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons (standard) |
| Length: | 132.19 metres |
| Beam: | 23.74 metres |
| Draught: | 5.9 metres |
| Propulsion: | Parsons Turbines, 10,800 hp, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Complement: | 450 (including six officers and 24 airman from RAAF) |
| Armament: | 4 x 4.7 inch guns, 2 x 2-pounder guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 6 Supermarine Seagull |
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The first HMAS Albatross was a seaplane tender laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in New South Wales in April 1926, launched on 23 February 1928 by Lady Stonehaven, wife of the Governor General of Australia, completed on 21 December 1928 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 23 January 1929.
HMAS Albatross began her first cruise a week after commissioning and took part in RAN exercises during the early years of the 1930s. Her air complement was provided by No. 101 Flight RAAF and consisted of up to six Supermarine Seagull amphibian aircraft.
HMAS Albatross paid off to reserve on 26 April 1933 and remained at anchor in Sydney Harbour until 1938 when she was accepted by the Admiralty as part payment for the cruiser HMAS Hobart. HMAS Albatross sailed for England on 11 July 1938. The crew which sailed to ship to England manned Hobart upon her commissioning.
Renamed HMS Albatross, the ship served in the South Atlantic from 1939 to 1942, before conversion to a repair ship. She then served in the Eastern Fleet during 1942 and 1943, the Home Fleet in 1944, and was put into reserve in 1945. HMS Albatross was sold to the Yannoulatos Group, and entered mercantile service as the Hellenic Prince in 1946.
The Hellenic Prince was sent to Barry in Wales, where she was converted to a passenger vessel. In 1949, she was chartered by the International Refugee Organisation as a refugee transport; as part of the Fifth Fleet she transferred 'displaced persons' from Germany to Australia after World War II, between 1947 and 1951.
On 5 December 1949 she reached Sydney, carrying 1,000 displaced persons thus returning to her birthplace after an absence of more than eleven years.
The ship's career finally ended when she was scrapped at Hong Kong on 12 August 1954.
[edit] See also
- List of aircraft carriers
- List of ship launches in 1928
- List of ship commissionings in 1928
- List of ship decommissionings in 1933
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