HMS Albion leaves Portsmouth Harbour.
Albion is a Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship of the Royal Navy built in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK. She is the one of the newest ships of the Navy and provides an amphibious assault capability. The ship 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
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