HMS Tartar (1756)













































































History

Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
Name:
Tartar
Operator:
Royal Navy
Ordered:
12 June 1755
Builder:
John Randall's yard, Nelson Dock, Rotherhithe
Laid down:
4 July 1755
Launched:
3 April 1756
Completed:
2 May 1756 at Deptford Dockyard
Fate:
Wrecked 1 April 1797
General characteristics
Class and type:
Lowestoffe-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:
587 1994 (bm) (4 tons more than designed)
Length:

  • 117 ft 10 in (35.9 m) (gundeck)

  • 96 ft 11 in (29.5 m) (keel)


Beam:
33 ft 9 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold:
10 ft 3 in (3.1 m)
Sail plan:
Full-rigged ship
Complement:
200 officers and men
Armament:

  • Upperdeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns


  • QD: 4 × 3-pounder guns

  • 12 × swivel guns



HMS Tartar was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.




Contents






  • 1 Naval career


  • 2 Notes


  • 3 References


    • 3.1 Bibliography







Naval career


Tartar was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and based on the Lyme of 1748, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."


The ship was first commissioned in March 1756 under Captain John Lockhart, and earned a reputation as a fast sailer during service in the English Channel. She made many captures of French ships during the Seven Years' War, including 4 in 1756 and 7 the following year.[1]






















































































Vessels captured or sunk by Tartar during the Seven Years' War
Date Ship Home port Type Fate Ref.
August 1756

Le Cerf

Saint-Malo, France
Privateer, 24 guns & 200 crew
Captured, 23 killed

[2][3]
By October 1656

Hero
Saint-Malo, France
Privateer, 14 guns & 162 crew
Captured, 1 killed
[2]
October 1656

Le Grand Gideon

Granville, France
Privateer, 22 guns & 215 crew
Captured, 7 killed

[2][3]
October 1756

Le Montrozier

La Rochelle, France
Privateer, 3 guns & 190 crew
Captured, 58 killed

[2][3]
March 1757

La Victoire

Le Havre, France
Privateer, 24 guns & 275 crew
Captured, 30 killed

[2][3]
April 1757

Le Duc d'Aguillon
Saint-Malo, France
Privateer, 26 guns & 303 crew
Captured, 47 killed

[2][3]
May 1757

La Penelope

Morlaix, France
Privateer, 18 guns & 190 crew
Captured, 14 killed

[2][3][a]
October 1757

La Comtesse de Gramont
Not recorded
Privateer, 18 guns
Captured
[3]
November 1757

La Melpomene

Bayonne, France
Privateer, 26 guns
Captured
[3]

During the peace that followed, the ship sailed to Barbados carrying a timekeeper built by John Harrison, as a part of a series of experiments used to determine longitude at sea.[4] She also served in the American Revolutionary War, capturing the Spanish Santa Margarita of 28 guns off Cape Finisterre on 11 November 1779.


She went on to see further service during the French Revolutionary War. On 14 December the French frigate Minerve captured off the island of Ivica the collier Hannibal, which was sailing from Liverpool to Naples. However, eleven days later, Tartar recaptured the Hannibal off Toulon and sent her into Corsica.[5]


Tartar was part of the fleet under Lord Hood that occupied Toulon in August 1793. With HMS Courageux, Meleager, Egmont and Robust, she covered the landing, on 27 August, of 1500 troops sent to remove the republicans occupying the forts guarding the port.[6][7] Once the forts were secure, the remainder of Hood's fleet, accompanied by 17 Spanish ships-of-the-line which had just arrived, sailed into the harbour.[8]Tartar was wrecked off Saint-Domingue on 1 April 1797.[3]



Notes





  1. ^ One contemporary newspaper report gives the name of this privateer as Phillip.[2]




References





  1. ^ Royal Navy history http://www.royal-navy.org/lib/index.php?title=C1751_-_1760


  2. ^ abcdefgh "Ireland". The Oxford Journal. Oxford, United Kingdom: W. Jackson. 6 August 1757. p. 2. Retrieved 10 January 2018 – via The British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help))..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ abcdefghi Winfield 2007, p. 227


  4. ^ "Voyage to Barbados on HMS Tartar". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 23 July 2013.


  5. ^ Lloyd's Marine List,[1] – accessed 1 December 2013.


  6. ^ James (Vol.I) pp. 67 - 69


  7. ^ "No. 13572". The London Gazette. 16 September 1793. p. 799.


  8. ^ James (Vol.I) p. 69




Bibliography



  • Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992.
    ISBN 0-85177-601-9.


  • James, William (1837) [1827]. The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume I, 1793–1796. London: Richard Bentley. OCLC 634321885.

  • Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007.
    ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.









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