Six ships and a naval station of the

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have been called HMS ''Tamar'', after the

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: * was a 16-gun sloop launched at

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in 1758 and stationed in

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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

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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 The rating system in the Royal N ...

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 an ...

launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 and sold in 1837. * was an iron screw

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launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong 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

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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.

SS ''Tamar''

Four ships of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company bore the name SS ''Tamar'' between 1854 and 1922. One of these, a 3,207-ton steamer built in 1902, was captured and sunk sank off Brazil by the during

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on 24 March 1915, while on a passage from Santos to

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