HMS Tartar (1801)
Tartar fighting gunboats at the battle of Alvøen
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| Name: | HMS Tartar |
| Builder: | Brindley, Frindsbury |
| Launched: | 27 June 1801 |
| Commissioned: | July 1801 |
| Out of service: | 2 February 1811 |
| Honours and awards: |
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Anholt 27 March 1811" |
| Fate: | Wrecked in the Baltic |
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| Class and type: | Narcissus-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 894 64⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 37 ft 8 1⁄2 in (11.5 m) |
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| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Tartar was a 32-gun fifth-rate Narcissus-class frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811.
Captain James Walker commissioned Tartar in July 1801. She sailed for Jamaica in October.
In June 1802 Captain Charles Inglis took command. On 30 August 1802 Tartar was among the British warships sharing in the capture of the French tartane Concezione.
In 1803 Captain John Perkins succeeded Inglis.Tartar was in Captain John Loring's squadron at the Blockade of Saint-Domingue when Vanguard captured the 74-gun Duquesne on 25 July off Saint-Domingue. Tartar outsailed her larger companions and kept Duquesne engaged until Bellerophon came up, at which point Duquesne surrendered.
As the British warships and their prize were sailing between the two islands of St. Domingo and Tortudo, near Port-au-Paix, they met up with the French schooner Oiseaux. She was armed with 16 guns and her crew of 60 men was under the command of Lieutenant de Vaisseau Druault. Loring ordered Vanguard and Tartar to escort Duquesne and Oiseau to Port Royal.
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