HMS Tamar (1758)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Tamar.
History
Great Britain
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
General characteristics
Class and type: 16-gun Favourite-class sloop-of-war
Tons burthen: 313 1594 (bm)
Length:
  • 96 ft 4 in (29.4 m) (gundeck)
  • 78 ft 10 in (24.0 m) (keel)
Beam: 27 ft 4 in (8.3 m)
Depth of hold: 8 ft 3 12 in (2.5 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Sail plan: Ship rig
Complement: 125
Armament:

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]

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.[2] Her subsequent fate is unknown.[3]

Citations and references

Citations
  1. Phillips, Michael. "Tamar". Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  2. Hepper (1994), p.60.
  3. Demerliac (1996), p.146, #1213.
References
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