Sign for The Albion
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Sign for The Albion
Image: © Jonathan Kington Taken: 19 Jan 2011
This is the sign for Image Since 1763 there have been nine Royal Navy ships that carried the name HMS Albion. But because there is no HMS prefix to the name and the ship depicted is rigged as a sloop, I believe this might have been a 22 gun armed former merchantman that was hired by the navy between 1793 and 1794. The navy then purchased her outright in 1798 before selling her on in 1803 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Albion . Albion is a popular name for ships coming from mythology where Albion was the son of Neptune, the Roman God of the sea. In poetry, England is often called Albion. This is possibly a reference to the Latin word 'albus' meaning white that could be describing the white cliffs of southern England.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.02406
Longitude
-2.174748