HMAS ''Tambar'' was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the

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(RAN) during

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Service history

Built in 1912 by the Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company,

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for the

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. She was sold in 1919 to the British New Guinea Development Company, in 1928 to the Tasmanian Government and later to Holyman & Sons. ''Tambar'' was requisitioned by the RAN and commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper. On 4 March 1942, HMAS ''Tambar'' was fired on and hit by the Examination Battery at Fort Cowan Cowan,

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. Two crew were killed outright and another later died of his wounds. She was returned to her owners in 1946.

Fate

''Tambar'' was scrapped in Melbourne in 1960.

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