HMS Sabrina explained

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sabrina. Another was planned but never completed:

• was an 18-gun sloop, later classified as a 20-gun post ship. She was launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
• was a schooner 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 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 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.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: AUXILIARY PATROL VESSELS, Part 1, Yachts to Trawlers. 2 May 2014. Smith. Gordon. naval-history.net. 6 September 2021.