HMS Tamar (1814)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Tamar.
History
United Kingdom
Class and type: Conway class sixth rate
Name: Tamar
Namesake: River Tamar
Builder: Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury
Laid down: May 1813
Launched: 23 March 1814
Completed: 5 November 1814
Fate: Sold in 1837
General characteristics
Type: Sixth-rate post ship
Tons burthen: 444 33/94 (as designed)
Length:
  • 108 ft (33 m) (gundeck)
  • 89 ft 9.625 in (27.37168 m) (keel)
Beam: 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 155
Armament:
  • 20 guns (from 1817, 28 guns):
  • Upper Deck: 18 × 32-pdr carronades
  • Quarterdeck: 6 x 12-pdr carronades
  • Forecasle: 2 x 12-pdr carronades and 2 × 6-pdr guns

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

Built in 1814 by Josiah & Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury. She arrived in Halifax, after 75 men died of fever, including Captain Arthur Stowe. 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.

Converted to a coal hulk in 1831, based at Plymouth.

Fate

She was sold in 1837.

References

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