Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have been called HMS Tamar, after the River Tamar

River Tamar

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 in South West England

South West England

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• HMS Tamar was a 16-gun sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
   launched at Saltash
  Saltash
  Saltash is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a population of 14,964. It lies in the south east of Cornwall, facing Plymouth over the River Tamar. It was in the Caradon district until March 2009 and is known as "the gateway to Cornwall". Saltash means ash tree by...
  
   in 1758 and stationed in Newfoundland
  Newfoundland and Labrador
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   from 1763. She was renamed HMS Pluto and became a fire-ship in 1777, and was captured by the French in 1780.

• HMS Tamar was a store lighter
  Lighter (barge)
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   launched in 1795 and purchased that year for Navy service. She was broken up in 1798.
• HMS Tamar was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1796 and broken up in 1810.
• HMS Tamar was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 and sold in 1837.
• HMS Tamar
  HMS Tamar (1863)
  HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship from 1897 to 1941, and gave her name to the HMS Tamar shore station in Hong Kong ....
  
   was an iron screw troop ship launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
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   in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941.
• HMS Tamar
  HMS Tamar (shore station)
  HMS Tamar was the name for the Royal Navy's base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997. It took its name from HMS Tamar a ship that was used as the base until replaced by buildings ashore.-19th Century:...
  
   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.
• HMS Tamar was a River-class
  River class frigate
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   frigate
  Frigate
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  , previously named HMS Aire. Aire was briefly renamed Tamar on her transfer to the Royal Indian Marine in 1946, but the name was reverted back to Aire later that year. She was wrecked at the very end of 1946.

See also

The SS Tamar was a 3,207 ton British steamer run by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

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, which was sunk off Brazil

Brazil

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 during World War I

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 by the Kronprinz Wilhelm on 24 March 1915, while on passage from Santos

Santos (São Paulo)

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 to Le Havre

Le Havre

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. She was one of four ships which bore this name between 1854 and 1922.