Albatross
Albatros (English spelling Albatross ) denotes:
- Albatrosses , a family of sea birds
- Albatros , unofficial honorary title for seafarers who have circled Cape Horn, see Cape Hornier
- Albatros , scoring in golf, see Golf (Sport) #Par
- Albatros , nickname of the German swimmer Michael Groß
cultural objects:
- The Albatross , story by Charlotte Armstrong from 1957
- Albatross, British No. 1 instrumental hit by the blues band Fleetwood Mac from 1968
- Albatros (band) , Italian music group led by Toto Cutugno (1974–1978)
- Albatros (Lied) , song by the German rock band Karat from 1979
- Albatross (film) , 2011 English drama screen
- Albatross, music album from 2013 by Leo Rojas
- Albatros, short story by Stanisław Lem, see Pilot Pirx #Albatros
- Albatros Literature Prize from the Günter Grass Foundation Bremen
geographical objects:
- Albatross (Missouri) , location in the United States
- numerous islands, see Albatross Island
- Albatross Crest , mountain range to the east of Annenkov Island in the South Georgia archipelago
- Albatross Glacier , Antarctica
Companies:
- Albatros insurance services , aviation insurance broker in the Lufthansa group
- Albatros Flugzeugwerke , aircraft manufacturer in the First World War
- Albatros Publishing House , Czech publishing house
- Albatros Airways , Albanian airline
- Albatros Motors , former British car manufacturer
- Albatros , brand name of the former French vehicle manufacturer Henri Billouin
- Les Films Albatros , Franco-Belarusian silent film production company (1922–1939)
- Albatros Film , German film production company (1975–1982)
Albatros is the name of the following
Warships:
- SMS Albatross (1871) , gunboat of the Imperial Navy
- SMS Albatross (1907) , mine cruiser of the Imperial Navy, Nautilus class
- Albatros (ship, 1926) , torpedo boat of the Reich and Kriegsmarine
- Albatros class , class of speed boats of the German Navy
- HMS Albatross , Royal Navy aircraft mother ship
- Albatros (ship, 1930) , large destroyer of the French Navy
- Albatros (1934) , test boat / submarine hunter of the Italian Navy
- Albatros (1966) , high-speed rocket boat of the Turkish Navy
- Albatros (ship, 1967) , French Navy patrol boat
- Albatroz (1973) , Portuguese Navy patrol boat
- Albatros (1912) , customs boat in what was then the Dutch East Indies
- Albatros (1969) , Spanish customs boats
civil motor ships:
- MS Albatros (Bodensee) , passenger ship on Lake Constance
- FMS Albatros , fishing boat with home port Bremerhaven, wrecked
- RMS Sylvania , a former cruise ship named Albatros from 1993 to 2003
- Albatros (ship, 1973) , a cruise ship
- Albatros (ship, 1912) , passenger and cargo steamer, built in 1912 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, today a monument in Damp
- Albatros (ship type) , a series of the Neptunwerft
Sailing ships:
- Albatros (ship, 1942) , sailing freighter built in 1942; sails today as a three-master mainly the German and Danish Baltic Sea
- Albatros or later Albatross (ship, 1920) , Danish-German-American two-master, last used as a school, sinking in the Pacific (1961), filmed as White Squall
- Albatros (ship, 1905) , sailing yacht, gift from the Russian Tsar Nikolaus II to the Württemberg King Wilhelm II, today an excursion boat on the Ammersee
Airplanes:
- Albatros (aircraft) , German military aircraft from the Albatros Flugzeugwerke from the First World War
- Aero L-39 Albatros, a Czech jet-engine training aircraft
- A-40 Albatros, a Soviet / Russian amphibious aircraft, see Beriev Be-42
- De Havilland DH.91 Albatross , a British type of airliner from the 1930s
- Gossamer Albatross , a muscle power aircraft
- Grumman HU-16 Albatross, a long-range sea patrol aircraft from the 1940s and 1950s
such as:
- Dutch high speed train, see AnsaldoBreda V250
- Russian airship, see Russian airship #Albatros
- Albatros offshore wind farm in the North Sea
- Code name for the MZKT-79221 heavy mobile rocket launcher
See also:
Wiktionary: Albatros - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
