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	St Albans, United Kingdom
		St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35.5km) north of central London.
		The growth of St Albans was generally slow before the 20th Century, reflecting its status as a rural market town and a coaching stop of the route to and from London.
		St Albans is home for one of the country's oldest and finest indoor skateparks, at the Pioneer Youth Club, in Heathlands Drive, next to the fire station.
	www.creekin.net /c78-n193-st-albans-united-kingdom.html (1291 words)

	Thomas
		Albans underwent repairs at Chatham in February to prepare for her transfer to the Royal Norwegian Navy-in-exile on 14 April.
		Albans and the minesweeper HMS Seagull sank the Polish submarine Jastrzab (ex-British submarine P—551) on 2 May. Jastrzab had strayed some 100 miles from her correct position in a convoy.
		Albans was based at Halifax and operated in convoy escort missions in the western Atlantic for the remainder of 1943.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t5/thomas-i.htm (1215 words)

	St Albans
		St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is a city and district in southern Hertfordshire, England, just north of London.
		The population of the district in mid-1998 was estimated at 131,400 by the Office for National Statistics[?].
		The football team is St Albans City FC: their 'stadium' is Clarence Park and they play in the Ryman's Premier League.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/St_Alban's.html (305 words)

	HMS St Albans (F83) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS St Albans (F83) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
		HMS St Albans was damaged in several parts of the deck, the gun deck, the sea boat supports and the bridge wing.
		In July 2004 the crew were granted "Freedom of the City" by the Mayor of St Albans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_St_Albans_(F83) (654 words)

	St Albans
		In 1744, the St Albans and three other warships were wrecked in Kingston harbour during a hurricane.
		From 1803, the St Albans served as a floating battery in home waters and at Cadiz, and was sold in 1814.
		In 1941, after convoy and minelayer escort operations, she was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy, under which she achieved the rare distinction of sinking an Allied as weli as an enemy submarine, the latter in theAtlantic and the former (a Polish boat) in theArctic.
	members.tripod.com /clyde-yards/id30.htm (494 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS St Albans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Today St Albans is part way through her first deployment, putting the check on smugglers and terrorists in the Middle East and Indian Ocean.
		St Albans arrived in the Middle East in late November and found her patrol patch stretched from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa.
		St Albans hurtled down the slipway at BAE Systems’ yard in Scotstoun in May 2000.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/stalbans.asp (774 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Ferry hits Navy's new frigate
		The Type 23 frigate St Albans, which has yet to enter full operational service, was lying at her berth at Portsmouth naval base when she was struck by the much larger P and O ferry, Pride of Portsmouth, in darkness early yesterday.
		The 4,000-ton frigate sustained serious damage to her starboard side, including the bridge, boat deck and gunnery direction deck, in the collision, which happened as the ferry was negotiating the narrow waterway leading to the Portsmouth ferry terminal at the end of her voyage from Le Havre.
		St Albans, which was commissioned in May, was due to sail tomorrow on a six-week exercise before being declared fully operational.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/28/nfery28.xml (327 words)

	Naval Technology - Duke Class (Type 23) - Frigates
		The new batch comprises: HMS Kent which was launched in May 1998 and entered service in September 2000; HMS Portland launched in May 1999 and commissioned in May 2001; and HMS St Albans launched in May 2000 and commissioned in June 2002.
		In July 2006, HMS St Albans assisted in the evacuation of UK nationals from Beirut during the Israel / Lebanon conflict, as part of the Royal Navy Operation Highbrow.
		HMS Richmond was the first RN vessel to receive the HE ER round in April 2004.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/t23/index.html (1261 words)

	HMS St Albans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The third HMS St Albans was commissioned in 1747.
		The fourth HMS St Albans served in the American War of Independence from 1777 and was part of the fleet that captured St Lucia and won victories at Battle of St. Kitts and The Saintes.
		The fifth HMS St Albans was the 1918 American destroyer USS Thomas, transferred to Britain in late 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_St_Albans (387 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 24 Feb 2003 (pt 78) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The final cost of the incident involving HMS St. Albans, including her repair, is not yet known, but it is estimated to be less than £5 million.
		HMS Monmouth's refit at Rosyth is planned for completion in June 2003 and following associated sea trials she is expected to be ready for operational deployment later that month.
		HMS Campbeltown's refit at Devonport is planned for completion in March 2003 and following associated sea trials she is expected to be ready for operational deployment in April 2003.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030224/text/30224w78.htm (1346 words)

	Trafalgar 200 - Ship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS St Albans is the sixteenth and final ship in the 'Duke' class of frigates.
		After qualifying as a Frigate Navigating Officer in 1993, he completed a successful appointment in HMS Beaver and was thereafter selected to command the Hunt Class MCMV, HMS Quorn.
		His appointment as PWO(CEW) in HMS Coventry included a NATO deployment and a short period in the Adriatic in support of operations in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.
	www.trafalgar200.com /tallships_details/st_albans.html (416 words)

	St Albans District Council - Leisure - Town Twinning - HMS St Albans
		St Albans District Council is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
		The Mayor of St Albans, Cllr Malcolm MacMillan with the CO, Cdr Steve Dainton.
		HMS St Albans press release 29 June 04
	www.stalbans.gov.uk /leisure/towntwin/hmsstalbans.htm (335 words)

	DD-182 DANFS
		Albans and three sister ships St. Mary's (I.12) (ex-Bagley, DD-185); Bath (I.17) (ex-Hopewell, DD-181), and Charlestown (I.21) (ex-Abbot DD 184) were attached to the 1st Minelaying Squadron as permanent escort force.
		On one occasion, these factors combined with tragic results when St. Albans and the minesweeper HMS Seagull sank the Polish submarine Jastrzab (ax-British submarine P-551) on 2 May. Jastrzab had strayed some 100 miles from her correct position in a convoy.
		Shifted to the Western Local Escort Force soon thereafter, St. Albans was based at Halifax and operated in convoy escort missions in the western Atlantic for the remainder of 1943.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd182txt.htm (993 words)

	Defence Internet \| Defence News \| HMS St Albans returns home from Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS St Albans, which took part in the operation to evacuate British and other nationals from Beirut, returned home to Portsmouth today, Friday August 18 2006.
		Throughout the six month deployment, St Albans, a Type 23 frigate, the newest of her class, sailed a total of 32,000 nautical miles, the equivalent of one and a half times around the world.
		It was a very different Beirut St Albans sailed into for a second time, having been diverted from her Gulf duties, to pluck 243 people from the bombarded city to eventual safety in Cyprus.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HmsStAlbansReturnsHomeFromLebanon.htm (489 words)

	Information Security News: EXCLUSIVE: TOP SECRET NAVY FILE FOUND IN PUB
		HMS St Albans is a Type 23 Frigate, the mainstay of the Navy's modern
		HMS St Albans was launched on the Clyde five years ago.
		HMS St Albans, which is the last of 16 Type 23 frigates built for the
	seclists.org /isn/2006/Jan/0058.html (727 words)

	Warships Magazine - LEBANON CRISIS SPECIAL
		HMS Illustrious left Gibraltar for the Lebanon at 9.00am on 16 July, leaving behind tearful relatives of her sailors, who had flown to Gib from the UK.
		The Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester (D96), which deployed with the Illustrious at the beginning of the year, was somewhat closer to the action than the carrier or Bulwark.
		St Albans was on her way back to the UK from a spell of duty in the Gulf.
	www.warshipsifr.com /lebanon.html (1185 words)

	This Is Hertfordshire
		Along with Alistair McMillin of St Albans solicitors Sherrards and district council officer Steve Welch, he was taken to the frigate three miles off Portsmouth by Seacat catamaran.
		HMS St Albans then fired a shot with its main gun to signal an exclusion zone of 200 yards around all the 167 vessels, both warships and sailing craft.
		The warships were moored in channels, with HMS St Albans next to vessels from Japan, India and Spain.
	www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk /display.var.611069.0.0.php (412 words)

	Navy's Boozer Blunder \| The-Latest.com
		The dossier, marked "restricted", detailed the planned exact movements of the frigate HMS St Albans in the Middle East including war-torn Iraq.
		HMS St Albans is a Type 23 Frigate, the mainstay of the Navy's modern surface fleet.
		Senior navy officers have spoken to the entire crew of HMS St Albans about the security lapse, the sensitive nature of the information and warning them that it must never happen again.
	www.the-latest.com /navys-boozer-blunder (740 words)

	Ananova - 1,300 Britons arrive in Cyprus
		HMS Bulwark, the Royal Naval assault ship carrying 1,300 British evacuees - the biggest single exodus from Lebanon - arrived safely in Cyprus.
		HMS Bulwark is set to sail again at midday local time (10am UK time) but she will remain on standby out at sea to return to Beirut to pick up more evacuees if needed.
		HMS St Albans, HMS York, HMS Gloucester and HMS Illustrious are also on standby.
	www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_1923744.html (254 words)

	St. Albans Observer: Archive
		GPs in St Albans and Harpenden are backing the national campaign to encourage the over 65's and high risk patients to have a flu jab before Christmas.
		A ST ALBANS-BASED charity is smiling this week after being awarded £500 to help train its volunteers in the skills needed to assist families in crisis.
		THE 170-strong crew of HMS St Albans could become the first people to be bestowed with the rare honour of Freedom of the City and District in more than 20 years.
	www.thisisstalbans.co.uk /archive/authors.var.274.40.0.php (282 words)

	March 2006 British Embassy, Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the Royal Navy’s most modern warships, HMS ST ALBANS frigate visited the port of Constanta over the period 10th to 15th March 2006 for a programme of workshops and joint exercises with the Romanian Navy.
		With a ship’s company of 21 officers and 173 sailors, both men and women, HMS ST ALBANS is the 16th and the last of the Type 23 Frigates – a formidable force at sea, capable of conducting anti-submarine warfare, disaster relief work and surveillance operations.
		She was with the fleet that rallied to William of Orange in 1688, and became a victim of a gale in 1693 and was eventually wrecked whilst trying to shelter in a harbour.
	www.britishembassy.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1142705109629 (389 words)

	Duke Class Frigates Type 23
		Sutherland, Somerset, St Albans, Lancaster, Norfolk, Argyll, Marlborough, Iron Duke, Monmouth, Westminster, Northumberland, and HMS Richmond.
		The submarine (ex HMS Upholder) was handed over to the Canadian Navy at the same base on Saturday 2nd October, before losing power in the Irish Sea only days afterwards.
		One crew member was killed in the incident, and HMS Montrose was sent to escort the submarine back to Faslane under tow.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /duke_class.htm (1759 words)

	Car Hire St. Albans from IIB Autos. Cheap St. Albans Car Hire.
		St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, just north of London.
		St Albans is home for one of the country's finest indoor skateparks.
		Housing is expensive relative to England in general, possibly due to fast commuting to London by train, easy access to London Luton Airport or maybe the large number of pubs.
	autos.iib.co.uk /car-hire/city/United-Kingdom/St.-Albans.html (378 words)

	[ISN] EXCLUSIVE: TOP SECRET NAVY FILE FOUND IN PUB
		Student Michael Blown, 22, spotted the papers showing the movements of the frigate HMS St Albans as he played pool with his friends.
		HMS St Albans, which is the last of 16 Type 23 frigates built for the Navy, has taken over duties from her sister ship HMS Kent.
		In 2004 HMS St Albans was deployed on Operation Oracle, patrolling the Arabian Sea looking out for terror suspects.
	lists.virus.org /isn-0601/msg00058.html (842 words)

	Destroyers transferred to Britain under Destroyers for Bases agreement
		USS Evans (DD-78), commissioned as HMS Mansfield (G-76) on 23 Oct. 1940; heavily involved in the critical convoy actions of Mar. 1943 with convoy HS229, landing survivors in the United Kingdom; sold 24 Oct. 1944 for scrapping.
		USS Rodgers (DD-254), commissioned as HMS Sherwood (I-80) on 23 Oct. 1940; stripped of usable parts, Sherwood was beached on 3 Oct. 1943 as a target for RAF rocket-equipped Beaufighters.
		USS Swasey (DD-273), commissioned as HMS Rockingham (G-58) on 26 Nov. 1940; while returning to Aberdeen on 27 Sep. 1944, poor navigation brought her into the defensive minefields off the east coast of the United Kingdom, and after striking a mine Rockingham was abandoned and sank with the loss of one life.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq59-24a.htm (1371 words)

	Defence Internet \| Defence News \| FACTSHEET: Emergency in Lebanon
		HMS Gloucester leaves Cyprus that morning having dropped off 172 people, and returns to Beirut, picking up her second load of entitled personnel later that night.
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Bulwark arrive on station in the eastern Mediterranean.
		HMS BULWARK remains in Cyprus as its passengers are being processed.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/FactsheetEmergencyInLebanon.htm (1066 words)

	The Haberdashers' Company \| HMS St. Albans
		In 1986 the Company formed an affiliation with HMS BRAVE, which ceased in 2000 upon the de-commissioning of the ship.
		In 2001 the Company became affiliated with HMS ST. ALBANS, the last of the Type 23 "Duke Class" frigates, launched in May 2000 and handed to the Royal Navy, after sea trials, in November 2001.
		Following a tradition established with HMS BRAVE, the Company has donated an annual award, the "Martyr of The Year", to be awarded to the member of the ship's company who has contributed the most to the effectiveness and efficiency of the ship.
	www.haberdashers.co.uk /pages/public/otheractivities_affiliations_hmsstalbans.htm (176 words)

	St. Albans Observer: News: Local News
		LANDOWNERS and conservationists are warning of the dangers of ragwort, a plant fatal to horses which is spreading because of the dry summer.
		ROYAL Navy warship HMS St Albans, which evacuated more than 240 Britons from war-torn Lebanon, finally returns home to Portsmouth today after one of its most gruelling deployments.
		THERE were emotional scenes at schools across St Albans, Harpenden and Welwyn Hatfield on Thursday morning as hundreds of sixth form students received their A level results.
	www.stalbansobserver.co.uk /news/index.var.826995205..11.php (328 words)

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