Six ships and one depot of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Columbine'', after the common name for the plant ''
Aquilegia''. A seventh ship was planned, but renamed before being launched:
*HMS ''Columbine'' was to have been a 22-gun
sixth rate, 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
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
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 ...
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 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