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Five ships and three [[shore establishment]]s of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Caledonia''''' after the Latin name for [[Scotland]]:

==Ships==
* {{HMS|Caledonia|1807}} was a 3-gun [[brig]] launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as {{USS|Caledonia|1812}}.
*{{HMS|Caledonia|1808}} was a 120-gun [[first rate]] ship of the line launched in 1808. She became a [[hospital ship]] and was renamed HMS ''Dreadnought'' in 1856 and was broken up in 1875.
*{{HMS|Caledonia|1862}} was a {{sclass|Prince Consort|ironclad|0}} [[broadside ironclad]] launched in 1862 and sold in 1886.
*HMS ''Caledonia'' was a [[training ship]] launched in 1810 as the 98-gun [[second rate]] {{HMS|Impregnable|1810}}. She became a training ship in 1862, was renamed HMS ''Kent'' in 1888, HMS ''Caledonia'' in 1891, and was sold for breaking up in 1906.
*HMS ''Caledonia'' was a cadet training ship, formerly the liner {{RMS|Majestic|1914}}. She was transferred to the navy in 1936 and commissioned in 1937. She was burnt by accident in 1939. The wreck was raised and scrapped in 1943.

In 1911, the name HMS ''Caledonia'' was proposed for the battleship {{HMS|New Zealand|1904}}, which needed to be renamed to free the name ''New Zealand'' for use by a new battlecruiser, but the battleship was instead renamed HMS ''Zealandia''.

==Shore establishments==
*{{HMS|Caledonia|1943 shore establishment}} was the navy base at [[Oban]], commissioned in 1943 and [[Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning|paid off]] in 1945.
*{{HMS|Caledonia|1946 shore establishment}} was an artificers' training establishment commissioned in 1946 and paid off in 1985.
*{{HMS|Caledonia|1996 shore establishment}} is a support base commissioned in 1996 at [[Rosyth]], [[Fife]], [[Scotland]].

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