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HMS Tamar (1814)

Conway-class ship of the Royal Navy


Conway-class ship of the Royal Navy

FieldValue
section1{{Infobox ship/image
section2{{Infobox ship/career
countryUnited Kingdom
flag
name*Tamar*
namesakeRiver Tamar
ordered18 January 1813
builderJosiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury
laid_downMay 1813
launched23 March 1814
completed5 November 1814
fateSold in 1837
section3{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption
class
tons_burthen450 (bm)
length*108 ft (gundeck)
*{{convert89ft7+3/4inm1abbron}} (keel)
beam30 ft
hold_depth9 ft
sail_planFull-rigged ship
complement155
armament*20 guns (from 1817, 28 guns):
  • 89 ft (keel)
  • Upper deck: 18 × 32-pounder carronades
  • QD: 6 × 12-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 2 × 12-pounder carronades and 2 × 6-pounder guns

'*HMS Tamar''' was a 26-gun *Conway''-class post-ship launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 at Plymouth, and sold in 1837.

Josiah & Thomas Brindley launched Tamar at Frindsbury in 1814. She arrived in Halifax, after 75 men died of fever, including Captain Arthur Stowe. She was driven ashore on the coast of Labrador, British North America, in early August 1819, but later was refloated. Under the command of Captain George Richard Pechell, she captured a large pirate brig near San Domingo in 1820. She was part of the failed settlement on Melville Island at Fort Dundas in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

On 3 March 1821 Tamar came into Kingston, Jamaica, with the brigantine Jupiter. Tamar had detained Jupiter in the Mona Passage on 23 May after a long chase. Jupiter, of eight guns and 190 men, was flying the Buenos Ayrean flag and did not surrender until Tamar had fired several shots into her that killed one man and wounded another, and that severely damaged her rigging. A few days later Tamar sailed for Savanilla with Jupiter.

Fate

Tamar was converted to a coal hulk in 1831, based at Plymouth. She was sold in 1837.

Citations

References

References

  1. (17 September 1819). "The Marine List". Lloyd's List.
  2. ''[[Lloyd's List]]'' [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735031?urlappend=%3Bseq=159 11 May 1821, №5591.]
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