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In May 1803 she joined Admiral Cornwallis' Fleet, which was blockading the vital French naval port of Brest , but was soon detached from the Fleet to deploy to the Indian Ocean where she was to remain for quite a few years. In 1814 the year that Napoleon was finally toppled, after a long period under extensive repair, once completed, she became flagship of Rear Admiral George Cockburn taking part in a war ( War Of 1812 ) against the United States a duty that the first ''Albion'' had once undertook. In the summer of 1814 , she was involved in the force that harried the coastline of Chesapeake Bay , where she operated all the way up to the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, destroying large amounts of American shipping, as well as US government property. The operations ended once peace was declared in 1815 . Just a year later, ''Albion'' was part of a combined Anglo-Dutch Fleet taking part in that Fleet's bombardment of Algiers , then in 1827 was again part of a combined fleet this time an Anglo-French-Russian Fleet under the command of Admiral Codrington at the Battle Of Navarino where a Turkish-Egyptian Fleet was obliterated securing Greek independence. She was hulked as a lazaretto or quarantine ship in 1831 and was finally broken up in 1836 . See HMS ''Albion'' for other ships of this name. |
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