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HMVS ALBERT
1899: Former Victorian gunboat ALBERT at work in Port Phillip Bay – A.C. Green [1878-1954, SLV.
- Smallest of the five ‘flat iron’ gunboats built by Armstrong Mitchell and Co. Ltd for three Australian colonial navies – in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia – in 1884, we seem to recall reading somewhere that the 350 ton HMVS ALBERT had been regarded to be too small to be…
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