During her deployment the ship has sailed across many seas including the Indian Ocean, South China Sea, North Pacific Ocean, Atlantic, the Arabian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

The amphibious assault ship left the UK in February returning to operations after a two-year period of extensive modernisation.

HMS Albion (L14) is one of the Navy’s two amphibious assault ships with a single aim: to deliver the punch of the Royal Marines ashore by air and by sea.

Described by successive commanding officers as the Royal Navy’s ‘Swiss Army knife’ – capable of doing anything – flagship HMS Albion carries more than 400 sailors and Royal Marines with a range of skills and experience: engineers, chefs, medics, technicians.

All were trained in disaster relief work at the Royal Navy’s specialist training complex in Plymouth last December – dealing with the aftermath of a mock hurricane and carrying out a large-scale evacuation of ‘inhabitants’ (played by students), a couple of months before the assault ship sailed on her deployment.

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