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HMS Albermarle was a pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.
Laid down 8th January 1900 at Chatham Dockyard.
Launched 5th March 1901.
Completed 12th November 1903.
Initial service was in the Mediterranean, transferred to the Channel Fleet January 1905.
January 1907 transferred again, this time to the Atlantic Fleet as Second Flagship.
She paid off into reserve at Portsmouth and from 1910 to 1913 was used for Gunnery training, again at Portsmouth.
On the outbreak of the First World War she was re-commissioned and joind the Grand Fleet, apart from a short spell with the Channel Fleet she was there until January 1916 when she was allocated to Archangel (near Murmansk) as an ice breaker.
That autumn she came back to the United Kingdom and after a refit served as accommodation ship at Devonport Dockyard.
Sold out of service and broken up November 1919.
See HMS Albermarle for other ships of this name.
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