Albatross (disambiguation)

The albatrosses are a family of large winged seabirds.

Albatross or Albatros may also refer to:

Aeronautics

• The Albatross, the propeller-sustained airship in Jules Verne's novel Robur the Conqueror
• Aero L-39 Albatros and Aero L-59 Super Albatros, a series of Czech jet trainer aircraft
• Albatros Airways, an Albanian airline
• Albatros Flugzeugwerke, a German aircraft manufacturer that built a series of biplane fighters such as the Albatros D.III during World War I
• de Havilland Albatross, a four-engine British transport aircraft in the 1930s
• Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered airplane
• HU-16 Albatross, an American amphibious plane
• Beriev A-40 Albatros, a Russian amphibious plane

Automobiles

• Albatros (automobile), a British automobile
• Albatros (1912 automobile), a French automobile

Speedboats

• Albatross Marine, a British manufacturer of very light aluminium speedboats

Locomotion

• Albatross was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Ships

Albatros

• Albatros (19th century ship), an American-owned ship which brought news of the outbreak of the War of 1812 to W. P. Hunt
• Albatros class fast attack craft, a class of German ships
• Albatros (1899), a ketch built in 1899, the last to sail commercially in European waters
• Italian torpedo boat Albatros, an Italian torpedo boat used in World War II
• German torpedo boat Albatros (1926), a German World War II torpedo boat
• MS Albatros, a cruise liner
• SS Albatros, originally built as RMS Sylvania and named Albatros from 1993 to 2003
• TS Albatros, originally built as TS Leda (1952) and named Albatros and Albatross in the 1980s

Albatross

• Albatross (ship, built in 1920), a Dutch/German sailing ship that was later used as a training ship
• Albatross (1920 schooner), ship that the film White Squall is based on (n.b. this is the same ship as the previous entry)
• HMAS Albatross (air station), a Royal Australian Navy base
• HMAS Albatross (seaplane tender), a Royal Australian Navy ship
• NOAA Ship Albatross IV, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel
• USS Albatross (1861), an American Civil War-era ship
• USS Albatross (1882), also cited as USFC Albatross, Navy manned research ship
• USS Albatross (SP-1003), a U.S. Navy launch built in 1912
• USS Albatross (AM-71), A U.S. Navy minesweeper, and the only ship in the Albatross class
• TS Albatross, originally built as TS Leda (1952) and named Albatros and Albatross in the 1980s
• Albatross expedition, a combined sailing and motor training ship of the Swedish Boström shipping company, used in an oceanographic expedition 1947 to 1948

Gaming

• Albatros (joystick), an Italian 1980s joystick
• Albatross (Rolling Thunder), video game character in the Rolling Thunder series

Golf

• Albatross (golf), a score of three under par on any given hole in the sport of golf
• Albatross18, a free online golf game from OGplanet

Music

• Albatross, the fifth album by The Standard
• Albatross (Big Wreck album), a 2012 album by Big Wreck
  • "Albatross" (Big Wreck song), the lead single and title track of the album
• Albatross (The Classic Crime album), by The Classic Crime
• "Albatross" (instrumental), a guitar-based instrumental by Fleetwood Mac
• "Albatross", a song by Corrosion of Conformity
• "Albatross", a song written and recorded by Public Image Ltd. on their 1979 album Metal Box
• "Albatross", a song written and recorded by Judy Collins on her 1967 album Wildflowers
• "Albatross", an unreleased song by Brave Saint Saturn
• An Albatross, an American artcore/grindcore band
• "We Swam From Albatross, The Day We Lost Kailey Cost", a song written and recorded by Chiodos released on the Grand Coda reissue of their album Bone Palace Ballet

Media

• Albatross (film), a 2011 British film
• "Albatross" (Star Trek: The Animated Series), an episode of the animated television series
• Albatross Books, a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern mass market paperback books
• The Albatross, a 1971 novella by Susan Hill
• Albatross (Monty Python Sketch), a well known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• "Albatross", a song by the English indie rock band Wild Beasts

Other

• Albatross (horse), a standardbred horse whose progeny won over $130 million.
• Albatross, a nickname for V250 (train), a high-speed train designed to operate between Amsterdam and Brussels.
• Albatross (metaphor), an encumbrance or a wearisome burden
• Albatross, Missouri, United States
• Albatross Foundation USA, an environmental group
• Grupo Albatros, a special operations service of the Argentine Naval Prefecture
• "The Albatross", nickname of former professional swimmer Michael Groß
• some of the butterflies in the genus Appias