Four ships 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 ''Sabrina''. Another was planned but never completed:
* 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 ...
, later classified as a 20-gun
post ship
Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a ship of the sixth rate (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carry ...
. She was launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
* was a
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
in service in 1838.
* HMS ''Sabrina'' was to have been a wooden screw sloop. She was ordered in 1860 but subsequently cancelled in 1863.
* was a iron screw
gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
History Pre-steam ...
launched in 1876. She became a
diving tender in 1916 and was renamed HMS ''Sabine'', and then HMS ''Vivid'' in 1920. She was sold in 1922.
* was a
Yarrow Later M-class destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
launched in 1916 and sold in 1926.
The yacht ''Sabrina'' (built 1899, 379 GRT) was taken into service as HM Yacht ''Sabrina'' on 5 February 1915 and equipped with one 12-pdr gun and one 6-pdr gun. She was renamed to HM Yacht ''Sabrina II'' in December of that year.
References
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Royal Navy ship names