Editing HMS Albion

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Nine ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Albion''''' after [[Albion]], an archaic name for [[Great Britain]]:
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* {{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 the mercantile ''Albion'' launched at Sunderland in 1797 that the [[Royal Navy]] purchased in 1798 for service as a [[sloop-of-war|sloop]]. The Navy sold her at Sheerness in 1803. She became a transport. It is possible that she foundered in August 1808.
* {{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 battleship|''Canopus''-class]] [[pre-dreadnought battleship]] launched in 1898 and sold in 1919.
* {{HMS|Albion|R07}} was a [[Centaur-class aircraft carrier|''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|''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 [[minesweeper (ship)|minesweeping]] in 1915.
* ''Albion III'', a steam [[yacht]], taken up from 1916 to 1919.

==Hired armed vessels==
* Between 27 April 1793 and 11 September 1794, the Navy employed a ship named ''Albion'', of 393 tons burthen.{{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=387}}
* During the period of the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the Royal Navy twice [[hired armed vessels|hired armed]] [[Cutter (ship)|cutters]] named ''Albion'', though these are probably the same vessel. See: [[Hired armed cutter Albion]].

==Battle honours==
* [[Bombardment of Algiers (1816)|Algiers]] 1816
* [[Battle of Navarino|Navarino]] 1827
* [[Crimean War|Crimea]] 1854–5
* [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles]] 1915

==See also==
* [[Albion (disambiguation)]]

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book |first1=Rif |last1=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |publisher=Seaforth Publishing|year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86176-246-7}}

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