HMS Tamar

HMS Tamar

Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy have been called HMS "Tamar", after the River Tamar in South West England:

*HMS "Tamar" was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1758. She was renamed HMS "Pluto" and became a fire-ship in 1777, and was captured by the French in 1780.
*HMS "Tamar" was a store lighter launched in 1795 and purchased that year for Navy service. She was broken up in 1798.
*HMS "Tamar" was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1796 and broken up in 1810.
*HMS "Tamar" was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 and sold in 1837.
*HMS "Tamar" was an iron screw troop ship launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941.:* HMS "Tamar" was the name for the Royal Navy's shore base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997, named after the initial vessel to serve as the base ship.
*HMS "Tamar" was a River class frigate, previously named HMS "Aire". "Aire" was briefly renamed "Tamar" on her transfer to the Royal Indian Marine in 1946, but the name was reverted back to "Aire" later that year. She was wrecked at the very end of 1946.

ee also

The SS "Tamar" was a 3,207 ton British steamer run by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which was sunk off Brazil during World War I by the "Kronprinz Wilhelm" on 24 March 1915, while on passage from Santos to Le Havre. [http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/rm2.html]


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