__NOTOC__ Several vessels have been named ''Prince Albert'' or ''Prins Albert'': * was a wooden steam paddle passenger vessel built at Walker-on-Tyne for service on the River Thames. Later, as a screw steamer she was a successful

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, but grounded in August 1864 entering Charleston Harbour the second time and was destroyed by Union gunfire. * HMS ''Prince Albert'' was to have been a 91-gun screw-propelled

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. She was renamed before her launch in 1853 and was sold in 1872. * was an iron screw

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launched in 1864 and sold in 1899. * was a Belgian cargo steamer, launched on the Tyne in 1903. She struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on 30 July 1915. * ''

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'' was a former name of the cruiseship ''Silver Explorer'', built in Finland in 1989. See also: * was a Belgian cross-Channel ferry which was hired by the Admiralty in 1940 and served as the

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HMS ''Prins Albert'' between 1941 and 1946. She then returned to Ostend-Dover/Folkestone service until 1968. * was a Belgian cross-Channel

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ferry operated between 1978 and 1998 between Ostend and Dover.

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