HMS Tamar (1758)

HMS Tamar or Tamer was a 16-gun Favourite-class sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Tamar.

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 ​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:
This plan specifically illustrates the jury rudder made on the return voyage to Britain after she lost her rudder through electrolysis between the copper sheathing and the iron rudder pintles

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]

Converted into a fire ship and renamed Pluto in 1777

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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