Two ships and a
shore establishment
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.
'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a ' sloop of war' to harass the French in ...
of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Robin'', after the
European robin
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, a type of bird:
* was a ''Heron''-class gunboat, built in sections in 1897 and erected in
Hong Kong
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. She was sold in 1928.
* was a river gunboat, launched in 1934 and scuttled in 1941.
* HMS ''Robin'' was a
Royal Naval Air Station
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commissioned in 1943 at
RNAS Kirkwall as a tender to
HMS ''Sparrowhawk''. It became an independent command in 1944 and paid off in 1945.
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Royal Navy ship names