HMS Columbine explained

Six ships and one depot of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Columbine, after the common name for the plant Aquilegia. A seventh ship was planned, but renamed before being launched:

• HMS Columbine was to have been a 22-gun sixth rate, but she was renamed in 1805 and launched in 1806.
• was an 18-gun launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1824.
• was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1826. She was converted to a 12-gun brig in 1849, a coal hulk in 1854, and was sold in 1892.
• was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1862 and broken up in 1875.
• was a tender purchased in 1897 and sold in 1907.
• HMS Columbine was an screw sloop launched as in 1876, converted to a base ship and renamed HMS Clyde in 1904, renamed HMS Columbine in 1912 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Columbine was a naval base at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth between 1917 and 1938.
• was a launched in 1940. She was sold in 1946 as the civilian vessel Lief Welding, and was broken up in 1966.