HMS Sabre

Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Sabre after the weapon:

HMS Sabre (1918) was an S-class destroyer launched on 23 September 1918 and sold for breaking up in November 1945.
HMS Sabre (P275) was a 102-ton patrol boat launched on 21 April 1970 and was one of three boats making up the Fast Training Boat Squadron at Portland Harbour. The boat was sold in 1983.^[1]
HMS Sabre (P285) is a 16-metre Scimitar-class fast patrol boat. It was commissioned into the Gibraltar squadron on 31 January 2003 and is used for police, customs and rescue purposes.^[2] It had previously been used in Northern Ireland since 1993 as MV Grey Wolf^[3]^[4] and was based in Lough Neagh where it was manned by Royal Marines.^[5]

^ "HMS Sabre". Battleships-Cruisers. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
^ "Gibraltar Squadron - Introduction and History". Royal Navy website. Retrieved 23 November 2008., which gives the former name of HMS Sabre (P285) as Greywolf
^ "HMS Sabre". Royal Navy website. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. gives the former name of HMS Sabre as HMS Grey Fox, in contradiction to the MOD website which says that MV Grey Fox was the former name of HMS Scimitar
^ "The sharp side of the Rock". Navy News. Royal Navy. April 2007. p. 12. Retrieved 23 November 2008.