One ship and one shore base of the

Royal Australian Navy The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the navy, naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (Australia), Chief of Navy (CN) Vice admiral (Australia), Vice Admiral Mark Hammond (admiral), Ma ...

(RAN) have borne the name HMAS ''Albatross'', for the

albatross Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Paci ...

: * , a seaplane carrier launched in 1928, which left service in 1933 and was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1938 * , a naval aviation base at Nowra, New South Wales, which was opened in 1948 and is active as of 2016

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