Albatross (disambiguation)

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An albatross is one of a family of large winged seabirds.

Albatross or Albatros may also refer to:

Transportation

Aircraft

• Albatros Airlines, a Turkish charter airline from 1992 to 1996
• Albatros Airways, an Albanian budget airline
• Albatros Flugzeugwerke, a German aircraft manufacturer that built a series of biplane fighters during World War I
• Albatross Soaring Machine, an unsuccessful flying machine designed by William Paul Butusov in 1896
• Aero L-39 Albatros, a Czech jet trainer aircraft
• de Havilland Albatross, a four-engine British transport aircraft in the 1930s
• Grumman HU-16 Albatross, a US Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard amphibious flying boat
• HU-16 Albatross, an American amphibious plane
• Beriev A-40 Albatros, a Russian amphibious plane

Automobiles

• Albatros (automobile), a British automobile
• Albatros (1912 automobile), a French automobile
• Albatross (automobile), an American sports car venture that was planned in 1939, but never got off the ground

Trains

• Albatrossm one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Albatross, a nickname for V250, a high-speed train designed to operate between Amsterdam and Brussels

Watercraft

19th century

• Albatros (19th century ship), an American-owned ship which brought news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 to W. P. Hunt
• Albatros (1899), a ketch built in 1899, the last to sail commercially in European waters
• USS Albatross (1858), an American Civil War-era ship
• USS Albatross (1882), also cited as USFC Albatross, Navy manned research ship
• SMS Albatross (1871), a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy
• SMS Albatross (1907), a mine-laying cruiser of the Imperial German Navy

1900 – 1950

• Albatross (1920 schooner), a Dutch/German sailing ship that was later used as a training ship, inspiring the film White Squall
• HMAS Albatross (1928), a Royal Australian Navy 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
• Italian torpedo boat Albatros, a World War II torpedo boat
• German torpedo boat Albatros (1926), a German World War II torpedo boat, see Norwegian Campaign order of battle

1950 – present

• Albatros-class fast attack craft, a class of German ships
• Albatros-class corvette, a class of eight corvettes built by Italy in the 1950s
• MS Albatros, a cruise liner
• NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342), a research vessel
• SS Albatros, originally built as RMS Sylvania and named Albatros from 1993 to 2003
• TS Albatros, originally built as TS Leda (1952) and named Albatros and Albatross in the 1980s

Other

• HMS Albatross, several ships in the Royal Navy
• Albatross expedition, a combined sailing and motor training ship of the Swedish Boström shipping company, used in an oceanographic expedition 1947 to 1948

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Albatross (Big Wreck album), a 2012 album by Big Wreck
  • "Albatross" (Big Wreck song), the lead single and title track of the album
• Albatross (The Classic Crime album), a 2006 album by The Classic Crime
• Albatross, a 2005 album by The Standard
• "Albatross" (instrumental), a 1968 guitar-based instrumental song by Fleetwood Mac
• "Albatross", a song on the 1967 album Wildflowers by Judy Collins
• "Albatross", a song on the 1979 album Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
• "Albatross", a 1994 song by Corrosion of Conformity
• "Albatross", a 2011 single by the English indie rock band Wild Beasts
• "Albatross", an unreleased song by Brave Saint Saturn
• An Albatross, an American artcore/grindcore band

Film and television

• Albatross (film), a 2011 British film
• Albatross (Monty Python sketch), a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, first appearing in 1970
• "Albatross" (Star Trek: The Animated Series), a 1974 episode of the animated television series
• "Albatross" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2007 episode of the television crime drama

Literature

• Albatross Books, a German publishing house that produced the first modern mass market paperback books
• Albatros Literaturpreis, a literary award
• The Albatross, a 1971 novella by Susan Hill

Other

• The Albatross, the fictional propeller-sustained airship in Jules Verne's novel Robur the Conqueror
• Albatross (Rolling Thunder), a video game character

Animals

• Albatross, one of a family of large winged seabirds
• Albatross (horse) (1968–1998), standardbred horse whose progeny won over $130 million
• Several butterflies in the genus Appias

Other uses

• Albatross (metaphor), an encumbrance or a wearisome burden
• Albatross (golf), a score of three under par on a hole
• Albatross, Missouri, United States
• Albatross Marine, a British manufacturer of very light aluminium speedboats
• HMAS Albatross (air station), a Royal Australian Navy base
• Albatross Foundation USA, an environmental group
• Grupo Albatros, a special operations service of the Argentine Naval Prefecture
• "The Albatross", nickname of former professional swimmer Michael Gross

See also

• All pages beginning with "Albatross"
• All pages with titles containing "Albatross"
• Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered airplane
• L'Albatros artificiel ("The artificial Albatross"), two gliders built by Jean-Marie Le Bris in 1856–1868