Australia/RN:
HMAS
Albatross (I) commissioned at Sydney on 23 January 1929...The next four years followed the normal uneventful pattern of the peacetime naval vessel of the thirties on the Australia Station - winter cruises to New Guinea and New Britain and surrounding islands, spring cruises to the southern states, exercises, training and long periods in Sydney Harbour.
On 26 April 1933
Albatross (I) paid off into E-Class Reserve and for the next five years remained at anchor in Sydney Harbour. In 1938 she was accepted by the Admiralty in part payment for the RAN's new cruiser
Hobart (I) and was recommissioned on 19 April 1938 under the command of Captain Hubert Acland, DSO, RN. On 11 July 1938 she sailed for England carrying as her crew over 300 RAN personnel who were to commission
Hobart.
On 9 September 1938 she was handed over to the Royal Navy and placed in reserve; her life as an RAN warship at an end...
Shortly before World War II began HMS
Albatross recommissioned from reserve and embarked six Walrus I amphibians. As a seaplane carrier she served in the South Atlantic, West Africa and Madagascar areas. She paid off in 1943, but again recommissioned the following year, this time as a fleet repair ship.
In 1944 while operating as a fleet repair ship she took part in the Allied invasion of Normandy, restoring 132 vessels to fighting service in the assault area. On 11 August she suffered considerable damage when struck forward by a torpedo off Courseulles. Casualties exceeded 100, including 50 killed...
In late 1949 she was chartered by the International Refugee Organization as a refugee transport. On 5 December 1949 she reached Sydney carrying 1,000 displaced persons thus returning to her birthplace after an absence of more than eleven years.
The ship's career finally ended when she was scrapped at Hong Kong on 12 August 1954.
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