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]
Her Captain on 1 January 1775 is listed as Cpt. Edward Thornborough, with ship's name spelled Tamer.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] Her subsequent fate is unknown.[5]
Citations
- ^ Phillips, Michael. "Tamar". Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ "Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 1 AMERICAN THEATRE: Dec. 1, 1774–Sept. 2, 1775 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Dec. 6, 1774–Aug. 9, 1775" (PDF). United States government Printing Office. Retrieved 9 December 2021 – via American Naval Records Society.
- ^ 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.
External links
Media related to HMS Tamar (ship, 1758) at Wikimedia Commons
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