HMS Albion

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Albion after Albion, an archaic name for Great Britain:

Template:HMS 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.
Template:HMS was the mercantile Albion launched at Sunderland in 1797 that the Royal Navy purchased in 1798 for service as a sloop. The Navy sold her at Sheerness in 1803. She became a transport. It is possible that she foundered in August 1808.
Template:HMS was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1802. She was used for harbour service from 1831 and was broken up in 1836.
Template:HMS was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1842. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1861 and was broken up in 1884.
Template:HMS was a Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and sold in 1919.
Template:HMS 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.
Template:HMS is an Albion-class Landing Platform Dock ship launched in 2001 and currently in service.

Other RN vessels named "Albion" were;

Hired armed vessels

Between 27 April 1793 and 11 September 1794, the Navy employed a ship named Albion, of 393 tons burthen.Template:Sfnp
During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy twice hired armed cutters named Albion, though these are probably the same vessel. See: Hired armed cutter Albion.