Six ships and a naval station of the
Royal Navy
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have been called HMS ''Tamar'', after the
River Tamar
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T ...
in
South West England
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:
* was a 16-gun
sloop
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launched at
Saltash in 1758 and stationed in
Newfoundland
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from 1763. She was renamed HMS ''Pluto'' and became a fire-ship in 1777; the French captured her in 1780.
* was a store
lighter
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launched in 1795 and purchased that year for Navy service. She was broken up in 1798.
* was a 38-gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
Rating
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launched in 1796 and broken up in 1810.
* was a 26-gun
sixth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works a ...
launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 and sold in 1837.
* was an iron screw
troop ship
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launched in 1863. She became a base ship in
Hong Kong
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in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941.
* was the name for the Royal Navy's shore base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997, named after the initial vessel to serve as the base ship.
* is a Batch 2 constructed in
Govan
Govan ( ; Cumbric?: ''Gwovan'?''; Scots: ''Gouan''; Scottish Gaelic: ''Baile a' Ghobhainn'') is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south b ...
for delivery to the Royal Navy in 2020.
The was briefly renamed ''Tamar'' on her transfer to the base in Hong Kong on 14 March 1946 as the nominal depot ship. The name reverted to ''Aire'' on 20 November 1946. She was wrecked in the early hours of 20 December 1946 when a typhoon drove her aground on Bombay Reef.
See also
* SS ''Tamar'' was a 3,207-ton British steamer run by the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, that sank off
Brazil
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during
World War I
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on 24 March 1915, while ''Tamar'' was on a passage from
Santos to
Le Havre
Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very ...
. She was one of four ships that bore this name between 1854 and 1922.
References
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Royal Navy ship names