page_title: HMVS Albert
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: HMVS Albert / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: Diagrams showing starboard elevation and deck plan of Australian colonial gunboat HMVS Albert.
context_page_description: HMVS Albert was a gunboat of the Victorian Naval Forces which was requisitioned for service with the Royal Australian Navy during World War I.
context_section_description: HMVS Albert was built by Armstrong, Mitchell and Co. of Elswick, United Kingdom. Completed in early 1884, she made the voyage to Victoria in company with HMVS Victoria and HMVS Childers, arriving on 25 June.
  Her time in service with the colonial navy was brief and uneventful, receiving an update for her main gun in 1890 before being paid off to reserve in 1893. In 1897 she was sold to the Victorian Public Works Department. During World War I, Albert was requisitioned with the intention of converting her to a tug, however this was cancelled before work began and she was disposed of in 1917.
caption: As depicted in Brassey's naval annual 1888-1889
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