USS Albemarle

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Albemarle, after the Albemarle Sound in North Carolina.

USS Albemarle (1863), was a schooner captured and taken into the Navy in 1863 and sold in October 1865.
USS Albemarle (1865), a sunken former Confederate ironclad, raised and taken into the Navy in 1865, and sold in 1867.
USS Albemarle (AV-5), was a seaplane tender in service from 1940 to 1960 and scrapped in 1975.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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