From Wikipedia.
A 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy. Launched at Perry's Blackwall Yard on the Thames River on 17 June 1802 and broken up at the Chatham.
The ship was 175 feet long and had a 47.6 foot beam.
In 1803, it joined the English fleet of Admiral Cornwallis (brother of Charles Cornwallis who surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, in case you're wondering) which was blockading the French port of Brest. There she took part in the capture of (and prize money of) five enemy ships.
From there, the Albion was detached to the Indian Ocean for several years.
On December 21, 1803, she and another ship captured a French privateer.
Much of the rest of the Albion's service during the Napoleonic Wars consisted of convoy duty.
--Brock-Perry
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