Tamar HMS 1758

[john sefton]

Tamar HMS (or more usually "Tamer")
Built by John Snooks (or Snook), Saltash.
As built: 96ft4in, 78ft9in x 27ft4in x 8ft3in.
Ordered 11.1.1757. K:15.3.57. (named 5.1.1758. L;23.1.1758. C23.1-28.5.1758 at Plymouth.
First cost;£2,445.7.6d to build, plus £3,305.12.9d fitting.
Commissioned Jan 1758 under Cdr John Hughes, for Anson's fleet; cruising and Western squadron 1759-60; took privateers Le Chasseur and Le Conqueerant 29.4.1759, and L'Hercule 5.5.1760.
In Nov 1760 under Cmdr Thomas Lee; paid off Mar 1763.
Fitted at portsmouth Apr-May 1763; recommissioned Mar 1763 under Cmdr William Forster; sailed for Newfoundland (fishery service) 26.5.1763.
Refitted and bottom coppered at Deptford Apr-June 1764 recommissioned ?4.1764 under Cmdr. Patrick Mouat, as Byron's consort in the Pacific; in 4.1765 under Cmdr. James Cumming; paid off 8.1766.
Surveyed 24.9.1766 and 6.10.1766; Large Repair and fitted, copper taken off and sheathed at Deptford (for £3,079.0.4d) 9.1766 – 10.1767;
Recommissioned 10.1767 under Cmdr. Anthony Hunt, for the Falkland Islands; paid off 6. 1770.
Re-rated sloop (vice 'frigate), and fitted at Deptford (for £1,851.19.7d) 9 – 11.1770; recommissioned 10.1770 for Falkland Islands dispute.
In 1.1771 under Cmdr. Charles Hay (died 3.1772); sailed for North America 18.6.1771. In 1773 under Cmdr. John Cross, then 4.1774 Cmdr. Edward Thornbrough, at South Carolina, and ?6.1776 Cmdr. Christopher Mason. Renamed Pluto 23.9.1777 and fitted as a fireship at Deptford (for £5,377.7.11d) 8.1777 –6.1778; recommissioned 4.1778 under Cmdr. Henry Pemberton, for the Channel.
In 7.1778 under Cmdr. James Bradby; at Battle of Ushant 27.7.1778. Refitted and coppered at Plymouth (for £1,303.0.2d) 5.1780; recommissioned 8.1780 under Cmdr. Thomas Geary; taken by French 24-gun Le Duc de Chartres off the Scilly Isles 30.11.1780.

British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-92, Rif Winfield.

Jersey SG304. Falkland Is SG511.

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French Polynesia 2015 190f sg?, scott? (Most probably she is the vessel in the background of the stamp.)