HMS Albany
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Three ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Albany:
was a 14-gun sloop
launched in 1745 and captured by the French in 1746.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Albany:
was a 14-gun sloop
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
launched in 1745 and captured by the French in 1746.
- HMS Albany was a 14-gun sloop, launched in 1744 as . She was renamed HMS Albany in 1747 and was sold in 1763. was the ex-American Rittenhouse. She was purchased in 1776 and broken up in 1780.