HMS Tamar (1758)
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Name | HMS Tamar |
Ordered | 11 January 1757 |
Builder | John Snooks, Saltash |
Laid down | 15 March 1757 |
Launched | 23 January 1758 |
Commissioned | January 1758 |
In service | 1758–1780 |
Renamed | HMS Pluto in 1780 |
Honours and awards | Battle of Ushant (1778) |
Captured | 30 November 1780 |
Fate | captured at sea by 24-gun French privateer Duc de Chartres |
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Class and type | 16-gun Favourite-class sloop-of-war |
Tons burthen | 313 15⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 8 ft 3+1⁄2 in (2.5 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | Ship rig |
Complement | 125 |
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HMS Tamar or Tamer was a 16-gun Favourite-class sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy.
The ship was launched in Saltash in 1758 and stationed in Newfoundland from 1763 to 1777.
From 21 June 1764 to mid-1766, under Commander Patrick Mouat, she accompanied the Dolphin on a circumnavigation of the globe during which the latter's commander, Capt. Byron, took possession of and named the Falkland Islands in January 1765.[1]
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The warship hosted South Carolina's royal governor, Lord William Campbell, beginning in September 1775, when increasingly-violent patriot activity drove the governor from his home on the mainland.[2] She was renamed HMS Pluto when she was converted into a fire ship in 1777. The French privateer Duc de Chartres captured her on 30 November 1780.[3] Her subsequent fate is unknown.[4]
External links
Media related to HMS Tamar (ship, 1758) at Wikimedia Commons
Citations and references
- Citations
- ^ Phillips, Michael. "Tamar". Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ Richard R. Beeman (2013). Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. Basic Books. pp. 285–286. ISBN 978-0-465-03782-7.
- ^ Hepper (1994), p.60.
- ^ Demerliac (1996), p.146, #1213.
- References
- Hepper, David J. (1994). British warship losses in the age of sail 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 9780948864308.
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.