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The Albion-class landing platform dock is a class of amphibious warfare ship [5] in service with the Royal Navy. The class consists of two vessels, HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, ordered in 1996 to replace the ageing Fearless class. Both ships were built by BAE Systems Marine at the former Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering yard in Barrow-in ...
HMS Albion is a landing platform dock of the Royal Navy, the first of the two-ship Albion class. Built by BAE Systems Marine in Barrow-in-Furness, Albion was launched in March 2001 by the Princess Royal. Her sister ship, Bulwark, was launched in November 2001, also from Barrow. Affiliated to the city of Chester and based in Plymouth, she is the ...
HMS Bulwark is the second ship of the Royal Navy 's Albion -class assault ships. She is one of the United Kingdom's two landing platform docks designed to put Royal Marines ashore by air and by sea. Although launched in 2001, delays caused the delivery date to be put back, and the ship entered service In 28 April 2005.
HMS Albion (L14) is an 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 minesweeping in 1915. Albion III, a steam yacht, taken up from 1916 to 1919.
The Albion-class ships of the line were a class of five 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. Design. Slade based the design of the Albion-class on the lines of the 90-gun ship Neptune. Ships. HMS Albion; Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 1 December 1759 Launched: 16 May 1763 Fate: Wrecked, 1797. HMS Grafton
Littoral Response Group (North) is the lead formation, based in Europe, with an area of responsibility in the Atlantic, Baltic and Mediterranean. It has included an Albion -class landing platform dock, a Bay-class landing ship dock, a company of 45 Commando Royal Marines and supporting elements.
The Albion-class ships of the line were a class of two-deck 90-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Symonds. The first two were originally ordered in March 1840 as 80-gun ships of the Vanguard class, but were re-ordered to a new design of 90 guns some three months later. Three more ships to this design were ordered in ...
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