She fired 4,110 shots at the city and suffered 3 killed and 15 wounded from return fire.
In 1827, she was part of a combined British-Russian fleet under the command of Admiral Codrington at the Battle of Navarino, where a Turkish-Egyptian fleet was obliterated, securing Greek independence.
At this battle, the Albion suffered 10 killed and 50 wounded, including her second-in-command, Commander John Norman Campbell.
In 1847, the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with the clasps "Algiers" and "Navarino."
In 1831, the Albion was hulked as a quarantine ship and broken up in1836.
--Brock-Perry
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