Six ships and one depot of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
have borne the name HMS ''Columbine'', after the common name for the plant ''
Aquilegia
''Aquilegia'', commonly known as columbines, is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae (buttercups). The genus includes between 80 and 400 taxa (described species and subspecies) with natural Species distribution, rang ...
''. A seventh ship was planned, but renamed before being launched:
*HMS ''Columbine'' was to have been a 22-gun
sixth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works an ...
, but she was renamed in 1805 and launched in 1806.
* was an 18-gun launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1824.
* was an 18-gun
sloop launched in 1826. She was converted to a 12-gun
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the l ...
in 1849, a coal hulk in 1854, and was sold in 1892.
* was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1862 and broken up in 1875.
* was a tender purchased in 1897 and sold in 1907.
*
HMS ''Columbine'' was an screw sloop launched as in 1876, converted to a base ship and renamed HMS ''Clyde'' in 1904, renamed HMS ''Columbine'' in 1912 and sold in 1920.
*HMS ''Columbine'' was a naval base at
Port Edgar
Port Edgar is a marina on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, immediately west of the Forth Road Bridge and the town of South Queensferry, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally a naval base, HMS ''Lochinvar'', Port Edgar is now a busy marina ...
on the Firth of Forth between 1917 and 1938.
* was a launched in 1940. She was sold in 1946 as the civilian vessel ''Lief Welding'', and was broken up in 1966.
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Royal Navy ship names