Two ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been called HMS ''Sabine'' after the
ancient Italian tribe:
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HMS ''Sabine'' was the French 16-gun ''Requin'' that captured on 28 July 1808 in the Mediterranean; she was sold in 1818.
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HMS ''Sabine'' was an iron screw
gunboat
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History Pre-steam ...
launched as HMS ''Sabrina'' in 1876. She was renamed HMS ''Sabine'' in 1916 on conversion to a
diving tender. She was renamed again, to HMS ''Vivid'', in 1920 before being sold in 1922.
Two other vessels named ''Sabine'' also served the Royal Navy.
*''Sabine'' was a fishing trawler of 118
grt, built in 1888 and registered in Aberdeen. The Admiralty requisitioned her in 1917 for the Fishery Reserve. She was commissioned and flew the White Ensign; she continued commercial fishing, but under Navy control until 1919, when the Admiralty returned her to her owners.
*''Sabine'' was built in America in 1917 and the Admiralty purchased her in 1940 as a rescue tug. On 3 June 1941 she rescued the crew of
''Fleet Tender C'' (''Marmari III''), which had struck the wreck of ''Ahamo'' and had subsequently been torpedoed.
References
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Royal Navy ship names