Only one vessel of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
has borne the name HMS ''Colibri'', after the
''Colibri'', a genus of
hummingbird
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. There was to be a second vessel of the same name but she was never completed. The two vessels were:
* , a French brig-sloop launched in 1808 that the British captured in 1809 and took into the Royal Navy; she wrecked at
Port Royal Sound,
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
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in 1813.
* In December 1814 the Admiralty proposed the building of prefabricated frames for two brig-sloops, to be named ''Colibri'' and . The frames were built in January of the next year and then shipped to
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
in March. In July the Admiralty ordered that if it was not practicable to construct the vessels on the Great Lakes that the vessels should be completed at Halifax. The order was never carried out and in May 1815 the Admiralty countermanded the order, instead ordering the frames sold.
[Winfield (2008), p.323.]
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Royal Navy ship names