HMS Albatross (1873)

This carving is not a true figurehead but a scroll designed for a sloop’s vertical bow.

The carving was still at Chatham Dockyard in 1938 but 11 years later, it had been moved to HMS Ganges in Shotley, Suffolk. This establishment closed in 1984 and the carving was transferred to the collections of the then Royal Naval Museum.^[3]

The carving can be seen in the Figureheads Gallery at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.^[4]

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