HMS Tamar (1758)
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 & awards | Battle of Ushant (1778) |
| Captured | 30 November 1780 |
| Fate | Captured at sea by 24-gun French privateer Duc de Chartres |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 |
| Armament |
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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.
Her Captain on 1 January 1775 is listed as Cpt. Edward Thornborough, with ship's name spelled Tamer.
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. 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. Her subsequent fate is unknown.