HMS ''Tamar'' or ''Tamer'' was a 16-gun ''Favourite''-class

sloop-of-war In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...

of the

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. The ship was launched in

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in 1758 and stationed in

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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. Her Captain on 1 January 1775 is listed as Cpt. Edward Thornborough, with ship's name spelled Tamer. PLUTO 1777 RMG J1352

The warship hosted South Carolina's royal governor,

Lord William Campbell Lord William Campbell (11 July 1730 – 4 September 1778) was from a Scottish family loyal to the House of Hanover. His father was John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll. From 1752 to 1760, he served in the Royal Navy in India. In 1762, becaus ...

, beginning in September 1775, when increasingly-violent patriot activity drove the governor from his home on the mainland. 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. Her subsequent fate is unknown.Demerliac (1996), p.146, #1213.

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