HMS Albion

HMS Albion

Nine ships 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 (1802) was a six-gun cutter released from service in 1808.
• HMS Albion (1808) was a six-gun cutter released from service in 1812.
• 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. Current Flagship of the Fleet (June 2011).

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.