HMS Osprey

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 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 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. The helicopter station closed in 1999.