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HMAS Albatross (seaplane tender)
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 HMAS Albatross with one of her aircraft overhead |
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| Career Australia |  |
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| Builder: | Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | April 1926 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1928 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 April 1933 |
| Struck: | 1938 |
| Status: | Traded to Royal Navy as part payment for HMAS Hobart |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons (standard) |
| Length: | 132.19 m |
| Beam: | 23.74 m |
| Draught: | 5.9 m |
| Propulsion: | Parsons Turbines, 10,800 hp, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Complement: | 450 (including six officers and 24 airman from RAAF) |
| Armament: | 4 x 4.7 inch guns, 2 x 2 pounder guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 6 Supermarine Seagull |
| Motto: | "Usque Ad Nubes Prolem Emitto" |
The first HMAS Albatross was a seaplane tender laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Cockatoo Island, Sydney in New South Wales in April 1926, launched on 23 February 1928 by Lady Stonehaven, wife of the Governor General of Australia, completed on 21 December 1928 and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 23 January 1929.
HMAS Albatross began her first cruise a week after commissioning and took part in RAN exercises during the early years of the 1930s. Her air complement was provided by No. 101 Flight RAAF and consisted of up to six Supermarine Seagull amphibian aircraft.
HMAS Albatross paid off to reserve on 26 April 1933 and remained at anchor in Sydney Harbour until 1938 when she was accepted by the Admiralty as part payment for the cruiser HMAS Hobart. HMAS Albatross sailed for England on 11 July 1938. The crew which sailed to ship to England manned Hobart upon her commissioning.
Renamed HMS Albatross, the ship served in the South Atlantic 1939-1942, before conversion to a repair ship. She then served in the Eastern Fleet 1942-1943, the Home Fleet 1944 and was put into reserve in 1945. HMS Albatross was sold into mercantile service as the Hellenic Prince in 1946.
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| Majestic class | Sydney · Melbourne |
| Colossus class | Vengeance |
| Seaplane Carrier | Albatross |
| List of major warship classes of the Royal Australian Navy | |
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