HMS Albion

Nine ships[1] of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain:

• HMS Albion (1763) 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 (1798) 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 (1802) 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 (1842) 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 (1898) was a Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and sold in 1919.
• HMS Albion (R07) 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 (L14) is an Albion-class Landing Platform Dock ship launched in 2001 and currently in service.

Other RN vessels named "Albion" were;

• Albion II, an armed trawler taken up in 1915 and sunk by a mine in 1916.
• Albion II, a Bristol paddle steamer used for minesweeping in 1915.
• Albion III, a steam yacht, taken up from 1916 to 1919.

Hired armed vessels

During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy twice hired armed cutters named Albion, though these are probably the same vessel. See: Hired armed cutter Albion.

Battle honours

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

citations and references

Citations

1. http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/assault-ships/albion-class/hms-albion/history/

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.