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HMS
Albion (2001-present) is a
Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship of the
Royal Navy built in
Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria,
England,
UK.
Albion is one of the newest ships of the Navy and provides an amphibious assault capability. She is the nameship of the
Albion class landing platform dock, which also includes
HMS Bulwark. The ship also carries a permanently-embarked Royal Marines landing craft unit, 6 Assault Squadron, Royal Marines.
She was launched on
9 March 2001 and was commissioned on
19 June 2003 by her sponsor
The Princess Royal.
In 2003 she received the Freedom of the
Chester City and also had a prominent role in the Queen's Colour Parade for the
Royal Navy in
Plymouth Sound only the third time a
Fleet Colour has been given in the
Royal Navy's history.
In early 2004 the ship deployed on a multinational exercise for the first time, taking part in Exercise Joint Winter 04 off
Norway, following which she was declared fully operational. Her next deployment was the Aurora exercises on the eastern seaboard of the
United States. On
11 November 2004 the ship was directed towards
Côte d'Ivoire to support
Operation Phillis.
Albion underwent a refit in early 2006. The refit included the installation of a new command, control and communications suite.
HMS
Albion attended the
HMNB Devonport Navy Days, August 26th - 28th 2006. Also in attendance was sister ship HMS
Bulwark, just recently returned from the
Lebanon evacuation.
HMS Ocean was unable to attend the Navy Days due to three sailors contracting
Tuberculosis. For public safety reasons,
Ocean was moved to
HMNB Portsmouth.
During the Vela Deployment,
Albion acted as the Amphibious Task Group
flagship. The deployment lasted from
11 September 2006 until
22 November 2006. In total approximately 3,000 British personnel and 11 ships of the Royal Navy and
Royal Fleet Auxiliary was involved. This deployment saw, for the first time, an
Albion class vessel taking part in amphibious operations with a
Bay class auxiliary
landing ship dock,
RFA Mounts Bay.
In late July and early August 2007,
Albion was docked at
Sunderland during the city's
Airshow.
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