HMS Tamar (1758)

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 ​15⁄94 (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 1⁄2 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]

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]

Citations and references

Citations
  1. ↑ Phillips, Michael. "Tamar". Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Hepper (1994), p.60.
  4. ↑ 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.
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