Two ships and a
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 First French Empire, ...
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 ...
have borne the name HMS ''Robin'', after the
European robin
The European robin (''Erithacus rubecula''), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in Great Britain & Ireland, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family. About in len ...
, 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
The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy and is responsible for the delivery of naval air power both from land and at sea. The Fleet Air Arm operates the F-35 Lightning II for maritime strike, the AW159 Wi ...
commissioned in 1943 at
RNAS Kirkwall
KIR, Kir or kir may refer to:
Biology
*Inward-rectifier potassium channel Kir
*Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor, a receptor protein expressed on the surface of natural killer cells and some T-cells
Bodies of water
*Kir (river), in northe ...
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