HMS Albion (1802)

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Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Albion
Ordered:	24 June 1800
Builder:	Perry, Blackwall
Laid down:	June 1800
Launched:	17 June 1802
Honours and awards:	Participated in: Battle of Navarino
Fate:	Broken up, 1836
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fame-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	1743 tons (1771 tonnes)
Length:	175 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	47 ft 8 in (14.5 m)
Depth of hold:	20 ft 6 in (6.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	74 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 14 × 9 pdrs Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Perry's Yard at Blackwall on the Thames on 17 June 1802. She was broken up at Chatham Dockyard in 1836.

In May 1803 she joined Admiral Cornwallis' fleet, which was blockading the vital French naval port of Brest, but was soon detached from the fleet to deploy to the Indian Ocean where she was to remain for several years. In 1814, the year that Napoleon was finally toppled, and after a long period under extensive repair, she became flagship of Rear Admiral George Cockburn, taking part in a war (War of 1812) against the United States — a duty that the first Albion had once undertaken. In the summer of 1814, she was involved in the force that harried the coastline of Chesapeake Bay, where she operated all the way up to the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, destroying large amounts of American shipping, as well as US government property. The operations ended once peace was declared in 1815.

Just a year later, Albion was part of a combined British-Dutch fleet taking part in the bombardment of Algiers. In 1827, she was part of a combined British-French-Russian fleet under the command of Admiral Codrington at the Battle of Navarino, where a Turkish-Egyptian fleet was obliterated, securing Greek independence. She was hulked as a quarantine ship in 1831, and finally broken up in 1836.

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