Three vessels and two
shore establishments of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS Bee, after the insect, the
bee. A third ship was ordered but never completed:
Ships
HMS Bee was a 79-foot schooner rigged vessel of 301⁄2 tonnes displacement, stationed at the Royal Navy's Penetanguishene Naval Establishment serving on the Upper Great Lakes from 1817 to 1831. A replica of her was launched in 1984 at the reconstructed naval dockyard and now resides at the "Discovery Harbour" provincial historic site along with the 175-ton topsail schooner HMS Tecumseth in
Penetanguishene, Ontario.
HMS Bee (1842) was a paddle vessel, built of wood and launched in 1842 as a tender to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth. She had additional screw propulsion fitted in 1844, making her the second screw vessel in the Royal Navy. (The first screw vessel in navy service was
HMS Dwarf.[1]) Bee was broken up in 1874.
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