HMS Albion

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain, or specifically England:

• HMS Albion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1763. She was converted into a floating battery in 1794 and was wrecked in 1797.
• HMS Albion was a 22-gun armed sloop. She was an ex-merchant vessel, hired by the Navy between 1793 and 1794, and purchased outright in 1798. She was sold in 1803.
• HMS Albion was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1802. She was used for harbour service from 1831 and was broken up in 1836.
• HMS Albion was a 90-gun second-rate launched in 1842. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1861 and was broken up in 1884.
• HMS Albion was a Canopus-class Pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and sold in 1919.
• HMS Albion was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier launched in 1947. She was converted into a commando carrier in 1962, sold in 1973, resold later that year and then broken up.
• HMS Albion is an Albion class Landing Platform Dock ship launched in 2001 and currently in service.

[edit] Battle Honours

• Algiers 1816
• Navarino 1827
• Crimea 1854-5
• Dardanelles 1915

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.