HMS Tartar explained

HMS Tartar has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy, and may refer to:

• , a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1702. Rebuilt in 1733 as a 20-gun sixth rate, launched in 1734 and scrapped in 1755
• , a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1756 and wrecked in 1797
• , a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1801 and wrecked in 1811
• , a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1814, reduced to receiving ship service in 1830, and scrapped in 1859
• , ordered as the Russian screw corvette Wojn from a shipyard on the Thames, but seized by Britain while under construction, launched in 1854 and scrapped in 1866
• , a torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1906
• , a destroyer launched in 1907 and sold in 1921
• , a destroyer launched in 1937 and sold in 1948
• , a frigate launched in 1960 and sold to Indonesia in 1984

Also

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• Tartar, a privateer the French vessel Andromaque sank on 15 May 1779
• Tartar, tender to in 1782