Five ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Osprey, after the bird of prey the Osprey:
Ships
HMS Osprey (1797) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1797 and broken up in 1813.
HMS Osprey (1844) was a 12-gun brig launched in 1844 and wrecked in 1846.
HMS Osprey (1856) was a Vigilant-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856 and wrecked in 1867.
HMS Osprey (1876) was an Osprey-class composite screw sloop launched in 1876 and sold in 1890.
HMS Osprey (1897) was a Gipsy-class destroyer launched in 1897 and sold in 1919.
Shore establishments
HMS Osprey, Portland was an anti-submarine training establishment established at Portland between 1924 and 1941, when its functions were transferred to Dunoon. HMS Osprey was at Dunoon until 1946, the name also being allocated to a smaller base established at Belfast in 1943. Osprey recommissioned at Portland in 1946, became a base in 1948 and was closed in 1995.
RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey) was an air station of the Royal Navy, situated at Portland, established in 1917. From 1959 the station shared the name HMS Osprey with the anti-submarine shore-based establishment located at East Weares, which used the air station's helicopters for research and development in anti-submarine techniques. It closed in 1999.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMSOsprey, after the bird of prey the Osprey: Ships HMSOsprey (1797) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop...
units from HMS Vernon and HM Signal School, Portsmouth) was itself commissioned as HMSOsprey, becoming an independent shore command. (HMS Icewhale (Z12)...
generation of submarines to be armed with nuclear ballistic missiles. HMSOsprey was an anti-submarine training establishment located at the northern end...
Argyll HMS Northney (HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV), Landing craft training base, Hayling Island HMSOsprey, (from...
torpedo bombers. Commissioned as HMS Urley (Manx for Eagle) by the Admiralty on 21 June 1944, with accounts handled by HMS Valkyrie, flying recommenced on...
course at the newly founded anti-submarine warfare training school of HMSOsprey, on the Isle of Portland, which was established in 1924. Walker consequently...
Appointment as Flag Officer Sea Training and command of the naval air station HMSOsprey followed in 1985 and then became Commodore on the River Clyde in 1988...
World War II military airfield which was operated by the Fleet Air Arm as HMS Nuthatch. John Laing & Son began building an airfield at Anthorn for the...
(RNAS Grimsetter). On 15 August, it was commissioned as HMS Robin, as a satellite to RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), located 1 mi (1.6 km) to the north west...
Portland, Dorset, England, at the old Naval Air Station of RNAS Portland (HMSOsprey) providing training and services. From 2017 HeliOperations primarily operated...
Culdrose (HMS Seahawk), July 1958. In September 1958, the squadron reformed on Westland Whirlwind HAS.7 helicopters, moving to RNAS Portland (HMSOsprey) when...
navy ships and bases are given ship names and Abbotsinch's was known as HMS Sanderling since June 1940. During the 1950s, the airfield housed a large...
a seaplane base; the aircraft operating from the base's slipways. In 1959 it became RNAS Portland (HMSOsprey) List of air stations of the Royal Navy...
became known as Royal Naval Air Station Ford, (RNAS Ford) and commissioned as HMS Peregrine, with Captain (A) R. de H. Burton as the initial Royal Navy commanding...
Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in September 1939. While the headquarters remained there, floatplanes were operated out of RNAS Portland (HMSOsprey), however...
in the UK in October 1899. Crace joined the Royal Navy as a cadet, aboard HMS Britannia, in May 1902. After being trained as a torpedo officer, Crace served...
and underwater weapons from 1917 to 1998; the shore base HMS Serepta was renamed HMSOsprey in 1927. During the Second World War Portland was the target...
for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm airfield at Burscough, HMS Ringtail, being given the name HMS Ringtail II. After a period of inactivity, Woodvale reopened...
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