Five ships and three

shore establishment A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. "Stone frigate" is an informal term that has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the French in 1803–04. ...

s of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Caledonia'' after the Latin name for

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Ships

* was a 3-gun brig launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as . * was a 120-gun

first rate In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at ...

ship of the line launched in 1808. She became a

hospital ship A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. I ...

and was renamed HMS ''Dreadnought'' in 1856 and was broken up in 1875. * was a

broadside ironclad An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. Th ...

launched in 1862 and sold in 1886. *HMS ''Caledonia'' was a

training ship A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house class ...

launched in 1810 as the 98-gun

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

. She became a training ship in 1862, was renamed HMS ''Kent'' in 1888, HMS ''Caledonia'' in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1906. *HMS ''Caledonia'' was a cadet training ship, formerly the liner . She was transferred to the navy in 1936 and commissioned in 1937. She was burnt by accident in 1939. The wreck was raised and scrapped in 1943. In 1911, the name HMS ''Caledonia'' was proposed for the battleship , which needed to be renamed to free the name ''New Zealand'' for use by a new battlecruiser, but the battleship was instead renamed HMS ''Zealandia''.

Shore establishments

* was the navy base at Oban, commissioned in 1943 and

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in 1945. * was an artificers' training establishment commissioned in 1946 and paid off in 1985. * is a support base commissioned in 1996 at

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, Fife,

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