HMS Tamar (1758) explained

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]

References

• Book: Hepper, David J.. British warship losses in the age of sail 1650–1859 . Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. 1994 . 9780948864308.
• Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth. 2007. 9781844157006.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tamar. Phillips. Michael. 5 June 2016.
2. Web site: Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 1 AMERICAN THEATRE: Dec. 1, 1774–Sept. 2, 1775 EUROPEAN THEATRE: Dec. 6, 1774–Aug. 9, 1775 . United States government Printing Office . American Naval Records Society . 9 December 2021.
3. Book: Richard R. Beeman. Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774–1776. 2013. Basic Books. 978-0-465-03782-7. 285–286.
4. Hepper (1994), p.60.
5. Demerliac (1996), p.146, #1213.