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	Navy Matters \| Albion Class LPD(R)
		Albion’s primary function is to embark, transport, and deploy and recover (by air and sea) troops and their equipment, vehicles and miscellaneous cargo, forming part of an Amphibious Assault Force.
		The "keel" of HMS Albion was symbolically laid down on 23rd May 1998 and 5 of the 7 large block modules she's assembled from were constructed in the covered Devonshire Dock Hall before being moved out for assembly on the slipway.
		HMS Albion finally put to sea to begin her Phase 1 of Contractors Sea Trials on 16 December 2002, and was handed over to the Royal Navy at Devonport on 4 April 2003 and formally commissioned by the Princess Royal on 19 June 2003.
	navy-matters.beedall.com /albion.htm (2297 words)

	HMS Albion (1842) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sixth HMS Albion was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
		Her first action was in the Crimean War during the siege of Sevastopol on October 17, 1854.
		While Albion's commanding officer, Captain Stephen Lushington was commanding a Naval Brigade providing vital heavy artillery support for the Allied forces besieging Sevastopol, Albion under the command of Commander Henry Rogers joined over 50 British and French warships of various types into action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Albion_(1842) (288 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		In 1794 the Albion was reduced to be a floating battery of 60 guns, moored at the Nore in the Thames Estuary.
		HMS Albion had been set on fire three times, and but for the work of the tugs she would probably have gone ashore.
		Two of her sisters, HMS Goliath and Ocean, were sunk in these operations and HMS Albion herself was badly damaged by Turkish fire while covering the landings at Gallipoli.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/content.php3?page=5059 (1482 words)

	HMS Albion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albion is an archaic name for Great Britain, although often used to refer specifically to England.
		The first Albion was built in 1763 at Deptford being adapted from a design of the old 90-gun warship Neptune which had been built in 1719.
		The second Albion was a ship-rigged sloop of just 336 tons, and was an ex-merchant vessel bought by the Royal Navy, though she was privately owned in her previous role as a hired armed ship, she was manned by a Royal Navy crew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Albion (400 words)

	HMS Albion
		Albion sailed from Mombassa on 5th December but on the 9th received a signal ordering her to "proceed with all despatch" to Singapore to pick up reinforcements and proceed to Borneo.
		Albion had her first respite with a visit to Hong Kong on 23rd February but was soon back in business trooping.
		Albion returned to Singapore in early October before returning to Borneo to put an organisation in Kuching to act for the ship and look after the squadrons - she was about to absent herself for a long period.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Borneo/Albion (1234 words)

	Ivan Berryman Naval Art - HMS Albion
		HMS Albion was built by Swan Hunter and laid down 23 March 1944 being launched 6 May 1947 and on the 26 May 1954.was ready for service.
		HMS Eagle and HMS Albion by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Bulwark at Hong Kong by Ivan Berryman.
	www.ivanberryman.com /hms_albion.htm (307 words)

	Albion Class Landing Platform Dock Replacement (LPD(R)s)
		The slipway was assembled, triggers were positioned, poppets were constructed forward and aft and 1150 tons of carefully laid chain was attached to Albion to arrest her once she entered Walney Channel after the 15mph journey down the slipway.
		Albion took to the water at 10.20 am on March 9th 2001, the largest ship launched at Barrow since HMS Invincible in 1978, cheered on by more than 1,500 shipyard workers, their families and local school children.
		With this in mind Albion's entry into service was revised so that she would be handed over on August 9th 2002, enabling her to enter operational service in January 2003 - some seven weeks earlier than originally planned.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/albion.htm (2723 words)

	Albion LPD(R)
		HMS Albion was launched at Barrow-in-Furness on 09 March 2001 by HRH The Princess Royal.
		Albion is a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) - an assault ship with her own flooded docking area in the stern to allow landing craft to be loaded quickly and safely with the large number of troops and vehicles carried aboard.
		HMS Ocean, a helicopter carrier, joined the Fleet in 1998, and four Bay Class auxiliary landing ships are planned, to replace the Sir Bedivere class of Landing Ships Logistic, operated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/albion.htm (1344 words)

	Navy Matters \| Albion Class LPD(R)
		The "keel" of HMS Albion was symbolically laid down on 23rd May 1998 and 5 of the 7 large block modules she's assembled from were constructed in the covered Devonshire Dock Hall before being moved out for assembly on the slipway.
		HMS Albion finally put to sea to begin her Phase 1 of Contractors Sea Trials on 16 December 2002, and was handed over to the Royal Navy at Devonport on 4 April 2003 and formally commissioned by the Princess Royal on 19 June 2003.
		HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark also each carry four Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel Mark 5 (LCVP Mk 5), 12 were ordered from FBM Babcock Marine Ltd at the Rosyth Royal Dockyard, near Edinburgh, on the 6 August 2001 in a contract valued at £9 million.
	frn.beedall.com /albion.htm (2297 words)

	New Amphibious Assault Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS Albion is capable of 18 knots, has a complement of 325, which includes the crew for the eight Landing Craft, four Landing Craft Utility (LCU) and four Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP), which each ship will carry.
		The new HMS Albion is the ninth RN warship to bear the name, which is derived from the Latin word albus, describing the colour of the cliffs around Dover.
		HMS Albion and her sister ship HMS Bulwark will be based at Devonport.
	www.sourceuk.net /articles/a03582.html (354 words)

	Fearless
		HMS Fearless will be extended in service until HMS Albion’s in-service date in March 2003 to mitigate the loss of capability resulting from the delays to the new ships.
		The landing platform HMS FEARLESS was nearly 37 years old and was due to pay-off in November 2002, her replacement, HMS ALBION, is due to enter service in January 2003.
		HMS Fearless was built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff launched in December 1963 by Lady Hull.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/fearless.htm (846 words)

	Gorman VC, first VC to live in NSW
		The Naval Brigade consisted of 1.020 officers and men from HMS Albion, Britannia, Bellerophon, Diamond, London, Queen, Rodney, Trafalgar and Vengeance, who were under the Command of Captain Stephen Lushington of the Albion The Brigade had been formed at the request of Lord Raglan who had sought assistance from the Navy.
		HMS Coquette was a 670 ton wooden screw steam gun vessel of 200 horsepower, she carried 4 guns and had a top speed of 10.8 knots, she had been built by Green Blackwall on the Thames in 1855.
		HMS ELK was a brig sloop of 12 guns having been built in 1847, she was 105 ft long and 482 ton.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-vc/gorman-vc.htm (4445 words)

	Naval Technology - LPD(R) Albion Class - Landing Platform Dock
		HMS Albion was launched in March 2001, commissioned in June 2003 and declared fully operational in April 2004.
		HMS Bulwark was launched in November 2001 and entered service in December 2004.
		HMS Albion was commissioned in June 2003, the first of two new Landing Platform Docks (LPDs) for the Royal Navy.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/lpd (990 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Albion all tanked up for the States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amphibious assault ship HMS Albion is all tanked up and on her way to the United States for a major American-led multinational exercise.
		Albion forms part of the Royal Navy’s Aurora 04 deployment – a task group which includes Devonport-based helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, Type 23 frigates HM ships Sutherland and Marlborough, and a number of Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels.
		Albion will be joined in the Fleet by her sister ship HMS Bulwark, currently in build at BAE Systems’ yard at Barrow-in-Furness – she is expected at Devonport for the first time in the summer.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0405/0004052101.asp (437 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| New warship heads home
		HMS Albion, which was built in four years in Barrow-in-Furness by BAE Systems, will be handed over to the Navy on Friday and enter service from mid-July following trials.
		Her sister ship, HMS Bulwark, is still under construction at Barrow - for delivery late next year - as part of a £500 million programme, said the Navy spokesman.
		HMS Albion is 50% larger than the assault ships which have been replaced and recently left service, HMS Fearless and Intrepid.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/2908033.stm (304 words)

	Navy's new assult ship, HMS Albion, arrives in Plymouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Royal Navy’s latest warship, the 18,500 tonne assault ship HMS Albion, arrives in Plymouth Sound tomorrow on her first visit to the city that will be her home for the next 30 years.
		She is equipped with the largest and most sophisticated battle command centre afloat in the Royal Navy, carries eight new landing craft to move men and equipment to the shore quickly and can operate large troop carrying helicopters.
		“HMS Albion will be a pivotal element of the MoD’s amphibious warfare capabilities when she enters service later this year and a tribute to the workforce at her shipbuilders, BAE Systems at Barrow-in-Furness.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/news/pn2003/apr03/hms_albion.htm (394 words)

	GDR 99 - Seaborne Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This close co-operation was highlighted during HMS Ocean's trials in the Caribbean when the carrier spearheaded a mercy mission off the Mosquito Coast of central America in the wake of Hurricane Mitch.
		HMS Ocean's commanding officer, Capt Bob Turner, had to interrupt the ship's trials and render assistance to the civil population in central America supplying food, medicine and humanitarian aid across the country, including supplies of freshwater from the ship that can produce 300 tons of water a day.
		By mid-1999 HMS Ocean will have completed both hot and cold weather trials and after official acceptance into the fleet she will deploy for amphibious exercises in the US prior to heading a multi-national deployment to the Mediterranean that will culminate in a seaborne assault into Egypt.
	www.global-defence.com /1999/seasys/sea4.htm (1226 words)

	HMS Bulwark enters service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Built in Barrow-in-Furness by BAE Systems, HMS Bulwark, now docked in her home port of Devonport, is the second in a new class of amphibious assault ship which combines innovative design with state-of-the-art computing power.
		Bulwark joins her sister ship HMS Albion, which was accepted into service last July.
		HMS Bulwark will be based in Devonport, together with HMS Albion and HMS Ocean, from where she will depart on missions all over the world.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/news/pn2004/dec04/hms_bulawrk_enters_service.htm (345 words)

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		HMS Albion assisted in the deployment of British Troops in the region in support of the threatened King Hussein of Jordan.
		HMS York, Jupiter and Battleaxe were relieved by Cardiff, Gloucester, Brazen and London and Commodore Christopher Craig succeeded Paul Haddocks as Commander of the UK Task Force.
		HMS Manchester transferred from the Task Group supporting the Americans to that of Commander Paul Haddocks and was replaced by Leander Class Charybdis.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /rfa4.html (3157 words)

	HMS Eagle naval at prints
		HMS Eagle steams past the commando carrier HMS Albion during the withdrawal from Aden in November 1967.
		One of Albions Westland Wessex helicopters is passing overhead and RFA Stromness is at anchor in the distance.
		HMS Eagle was built at Clydebank, and was launched on the 8th of June 1918, a former Battleship construction suspended in 1914.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /hms_eagle.htm (1191 words)

	HMS Albion aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		Albion was built by Swan Hunter, laid down 23 March 1944, launched 6 May 1947 and completed 26 May 1954.
		Bulwark and her sister ship Albion took part in the Suez attacks on Egypt in 1956, but were then converted to helicopter carriers in 1959-60 and 1961-62, respectively.
		Albion was paid off for conversion to amphibious-assault helicopter carrier at Portsmouth Dockyard 17 December 1960.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Albion.html (492 words)

	Ships of the Royal Navy - Amphibious Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS INTREPID is currently in long-term reserve although she is capable of becoming servicable with one month's notice.
		HMS FEARLESS served as the flagship of COMAW (Commodore Mike Clapp) and was also the command platform for the Brigadier in charge of troops.
		HMS INTREPID was attached to COMAW and carried a substantial number of other troops and vehicles essential for the invasion.
	www.gillespie.ndo.co.uk /Navy/Amphibious.htm (422 words)

	HMS Fearless to Retire
		HMS Fearless was built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched in 1963.
		However her finest hour came in the 1982 Falklands conflict, where she and her sistership, HMS Intrepid, launched the amphibious assault to retake the Islands.
		As a consequence of the terrorist atrocities of September 11th, she remained in the region to participate in the US-led 'war against terror'.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/News/7march02.htm (424 words)

	HMS Albion celebrates our 250th
		On Wednesday 12 July one of the newest ships in the Royal Navy, amphibious assault vessel HMS Albion, arrived on her first visit to London, celebrating the 250th anniversary of The Marine Society.
		On 25 June 1756, following the outbreak of the Seven Years War, John Thornton joined his friend Jonas Hanway and some 22 interested parties in the Kingâs Arms Tavern in the City of London to discuss the effect the war was likely to have on trading conditions.
		His descendant, Henry Thornton, a trustee of the charity today, was on board HMS Albion to help celebrate this achievement.
	www.ms-sc.org /Corporate-Information/Newsroom-and-Events/News-Archive/HMS-Albion (325 words)

	Industry News - HMS Bulwark enters service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS Bulwark is being hailed as a huge step in modernising amphibious operations and will form a key part of the UK's capability to launch expeditionary warfare over the next 30 years.
		Lord Bach also stated that along with her sister ship HMS Albion, HMS Bulwark forms "a key part of a £1 billion modernisation programme which will mark a new era for the Royal Navy".
		HMS Bulwark was built by BAE systems at Barrow-in-Furness and she is currently docked in her homeport of Devonport.
	www.serco.com /media/industrynews/ItemPage.asp?ItemID=7286320 (184 words)

	Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers, Original Paintings
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941.
		HMS Ocean is the sixth ship to bear this famous name and is ably equipped with 12 Sea King HC Mk4s, 4 Landing Craft, 2 Griffon hovercraft, plus enough equipment necessary to provide support for a Commando battalion of over 800 Royal Marines.
	www.military-art.com /rn_carriers.htm (1517 words)

	HMS Eagle
		Initially laid down in 1942 at Harland and Wolff's, Belfast yard as 'Audacious' (first of four projected carriers of the Audacious Class) She was launched as 'Eagle' (the fifteenth Royal Navy ship to be so named) in March 1946 after the proposed ship of that name was subsequently cancelled.
		HMS Albion going under a bridge (not sure where)..
		Wessex 5 Commando carrier from 'Albion' in Norway..
	www.red-rooster.co.uk /ships/eagle.htm (255 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Albion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The ship and her equipment worked well – Albion was put through her paces across the full spectrum of her capabilities and delivered the right results.
		It was a matter of pride on board when Albion was declared at operational full readiness – fit for front-line duties – less than one year after crewing up towards the end of her build in Barrow – and at the same time the ship became the Fleet Amphibious Flagship.
		The sixth Albion was launched at Plymouth in 1842 and saw action in the Crimean.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/albion.asp (862 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 20 Jan 2003 (pt 18)
		On current plans, HMS Albion is expected to enter service with the Royal Navy by July 2003.
		This should permit HMS Sceptre's reactor to be powered up and tested prior to the submarine going to sea for the usual post refit trials and training before she returns to operations.
		HMS Trafalgar was due to enter a period of extended maintenance in April 2003.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030120/text/30120w18.htm (1496 words)

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