RV Albatross

RV Albatross may refer to more than one research vessel:

• USFC Albatross, a fisheries research ship in service with the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries from 1882 to 1898 and from 1898 to 1903 and with the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1903 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1921 which saw service in the United States Navy as USS Albatross (1882) in 1898 and from 1917 to 1919
• RV Albatross II, a fisheries research ship in service with the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1926 to 1932 which saw service in the United States Navy as the tug USS Patuxent (AT-11) from 1909 to 1924
• RV Albatross III, a fisheries research ship in service with the United States National Fish and Wildlife Service from 1948 to 1959 which briefly saw service in 1944 as the United States Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Bellefonte (WYP-373)
• NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342), a fisheries research ship in commission with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 1963 to 1970 and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 2008