HMS Bee

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

 * HM Schooner Bee was a 79-foot wooden supply schooner of 30$1/2$ tonnes displacement, stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval Establishment from 1817 to 1831.
 * 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 first screw vessel in the Royal Navy. She was broken up in 1874.
 * HMS Bee (1915) was an launched in 1915 and sold in 1939.
 * HMS Bee was to have been a . She was ordered in 1939, but cancelled in 1940.

Shore establishments

 * HMS Bee was a Coastal Forces motor launch work up base at Weymouth in commission between 1942 and 1943.
 * HMS Bee was a Coastal Forces motor launch work up base at Holyhead, taking over from the previous base in 1943 and being paid off in 1945.