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| Name | Alban (1826) | Explanation | |
| Type | Gunvessel | ||
| Launched | 27 December 1826 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Paddle | ||
| Builders measure | 295 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 2 | ||
| Fate | 1860 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1831 rebuilt 407 bm | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 27 November 1832 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Andrew Kennedy, Falmouth packet | ||
| 17 November 1834 - July 1835 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Justus Peter Roepel, Mediterranean | ||
| 17 June 1836 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander Edward Burnaby Tinling, West Indies | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Woolwich | ||
| 8 March 1843 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander John Jeayes, Woolwich | ||
| 25 February 1854 | Commanded by Commander Henry Charles Otter, the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 1 January 1855 | Commanded by Commander Lacon Usher Hammett, Woolwich | ||
| 12 March 1855 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Edward Fisher, Sheerness | ||
| 19 May 1856 | Commanded by Lieutenant commander William Barnard De Blaquiere, Portsmouth | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| We 26 February 1851 | Her Majesty’s ship Wellesley, Vice-Admiral Lord Dundonald (Commander-in-Chief), and Her Majesty’s brig Sappho, Commander Cochrane, were at Trinidad on the 31st of January, and would proceed in a few days to Jamaica, where the squadron was about to assemble for the purpose of holding a court-martial on Commander Dyke, of the Inflexible. Her Majesty’s ship Alarm and the steamer Alban were at Port Royal. The schooner Bermuda at Greytown. The Scorpion at Tortola. Her Majesty’s brig Helena arrived at St. Thomas’s on the 2d of February, and sailed the following day for Jamaica. | ||
| Ma 10 March 1851 | Her Majesty’s ship Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Lord Dundonald), and the Sappho, 12, were at Trinidad on the 14th of February, about to proceed to Jamaica. The Imaum, 72, Persian, 12, and Plumper and Alban steamers were at Port Royal on the 14th ult. The Helena, 16, was at Porto Rico on the 18th, the Bermuda at Greytown on the 3d, and Scorpion at St. Thomas’s on the 19th ult. The Alarm was cruising off Cuba, but was expected daily at Port Royal. The Inflexible was spoken on the 15th of February by the Royal mail steamer Great Western, having left Port Royal on the 13th of February with the 2d West India Regiment on board for Demerara. The Inflexible was to call at Barbadoes. The screw steam-sloop Plumper was refitting at Jamaica to join the Brazil station. The squadron was particularly healthy, there being only 12 persons in hospital at Jamaica, all convalescing. | ||
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